Buxton
Subtitle: a Black utopia in the heartland
By: by Dorothy Schwieder, Joseph Hraba, and Elmer Schwieder.
Contributors: Hraba, Joseph.; Schwieder, Elmer, 1925-
Series: A Bur oak book
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Iowa City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: Coal miners -- Iowa -- Buxton.; Buxton (Iowa) -- Race relations.; Buxton (Iowa) -- Social conditions.
Description: "From 1900 to the early 1920s, an unusual community existed in America's heartland: Buxton, Iowa, established by the Consolidation Coal Company. The majority of Buxton's five thousand 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 housing and minimal discrimination. For such reasons, Buxton was commonly known as 'the black man's utopia in Iowa.' Now, eighty years after the town's demise, this truly interdisciplinary history of a unique Iowa community remains a compelling story."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.   ) and index.
Original subtitle: Work and racial equality in a coal mining community.