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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.
| ISBN | 0877458529 | | Pages | 270 | | ISBN13 | 9780877458524
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | University of Iowa Press | | Weight (grammes) | 318 | | Imprint | University of Iowa Press | | Published in | Iowa | | Format | Paperback | | Series title | Bur Oak Books | | Publication date | 30 Sep 2003 | | Height (mm) | 216 | | Library of Congress | 2002041616 | | Width (mm) | 139 | | DEWEY | 977.00496073 | | Spine width (mm) | 17 | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | | Academic level | Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly, General |
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| | | A Buxton Retrospective: Introduction to the 2003 Edition | | | | | | Acknowledgments | | | | | | Introduction | | 3 | | 1 | | Muchakinock: Buxton's Historical Antecedent | | 13 | | 2 | | The Creation of a Community | | 40 | | 3 | | Workers in a Company Town | | 64 | | 4 | | The Consolidation Coal Company | | 88 | | 5 | | Family Life | | 113 | | 6 | | Ethnicity | | 148 | | 7 | | Buxton and Haydock: The Final Years | | 185 | | 8 | | A Perspective | | 210 | | | | Notes | | 223 | | | | Selected Bibliography | | 241 | | | | Index | | 247 |
"This interdisciplinary study combines documentary materials with oral history to provide a vivid descriptive picture of Buxton.... The authors have provided an excellent work demonstrating the use of documentary evidence and personal interviews to reconstruct a picture of a community of the past...of considerable value, particularly, for the areas of race relations and community studies."  Be the first to write a customer review
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