ISBN:
9781587298950
,
1587298953
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xx, 256 p.)
,
ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
A Bur oak book
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Schwieder, Dorothy, 1933- Buxton
DDC:
305.9622
Keywords:
Coal miners Iowa
;
Buxton
;
Coal miners
;
Coal miners
;
Race relations
;
Social conditions
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HISTORY ; United States ; State & Local ; Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
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Buxton (Iowa) Race relations
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Buxton (Iowa) Social conditions
;
Iowa
;
Buxton
;
Buxton (Iowa) Social conditions
;
Buxton (Iowa) Race relations
;
Iowa ; Buxton
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Note:
Original subtitle: Work and racial equality in a coal mining community. - Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-246) and index. - Description based on print version record
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