Buxton: a Black utopia in the heartland
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Main Author: Schwieder, Dorothy (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Iowa City University of Iowa Press ©2003
Series:Bur oak book
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Item Description:Original subtitle: Work and racial equality in a coal mining community
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-246) and index
A Buxton Retrospective: Introduction to the 2003 Edition; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Muchakinock: Buxton's Historical Antecedent; 2. The Creation of a Community; 3. Workers in a Company Town; 4. The Consolidation Coal Company; 5. Family Life; 6. Ethnicity; 7. Buxton and Haydock: The Final Years; 8. A Perspective; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index
From 1900 until the early 1920s, an unusual community existed in America's heartland-Buxton, Iowa. Originally established by the Consolidation Coal Company, Buxton was the largest unincorporated coal mining community in Iowa. What made Buxton unique, however, is the fact that the majority of its 5,000 residents were African Americans-a highly unusual racial composition for a state which was over 90 percent white. At a time when both southern and northern blacks were disadvantaged and oppressed, blacks in Buxton enjoyed true racial integration-steady employment, above-average wages, decent hous
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xx, 256 pages)
ISBN:1587298953
9781587298950

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