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Buxton : a Black utopia in the heartland / by Dorothy Schwieder, Joseph Hraba, and Elmer Schwieder

Schwieder, Dorothy, 1933- ; Hraba, Joseph ; Schwieder, Elmer, 1925-2005

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2003

Online Ressource (xx, 256 p.) : ill.

Englisch

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

Erscheint auch als: Schwieder, Dorothy, 1933- : Buxton. - Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2003 (Druck-Ausgabe)

978-1-58729-895-0 (electronic bk.); 1-58729-895-3 (electronic bk.)

0-87745-852-9 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-0-87745-852-4 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-0-87745-852-4 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 551774738 (aus SWB)     

Online-Ausg.

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Aggregator-Datenbank (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

HD8039.M62

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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