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200 10$aBuxton $ea Black utopia in the heartland /$fDorothy Schwieder, Joseph Hraba and Elmer Schwieder
205   $aAn expanded ed.
210   $aIowa City $cUniversity of Iowa Press$dc2003
215   $a1 online resource (277 p.)
225 1 $aBur oak book
300   $aOriginal subtitle: Work and racial equality in a coal mining community.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 241-246) and index.
327   $aCONTENTS; A Buxton Retrospective: Introduction to the 2003 Edition; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Muchakinock: Buxton's Historical Antecedent; 2. The Creation of a Community; 3. Workers in a Company Town; 4. The Consolidation Coal Company; 5. Family Life; 6. Ethnicity; 7. Buxton and Haydock: The Final Years; 8. A Perspective; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index
330   $aFrom 1900 until the early 1920's, 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
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607   $aBuxton (Iowa)$xRace relations
607   $aBuxton (Iowa)$xSocial conditions
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701   $aHraba$b Joseph$01803768
701   $aSchwieder$b Elmer$f1925-$01803769
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