Buxton: a Black utopia in the heartland
by Schwieder, Dorothy, Hraba, Joseph, Schwieder, Elmer
fromBur oak book
"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 ov…
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