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From 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

Buxton (Iowa) - Race relations. --- Buxton (Iowa) - Social conditions. --- Coal miners - Iowa - Buxton. --- Coal miners --- Labor & Workers' Economics --- Business & Economics --- Buxton (Iowa) --- Race relations. --- Social conditions. --- Miners --- Colliers (Coal miners)