TY - BOOK ID - 12019715 TI - Buxton AU - Schwieder, Dorothy AU - Hraba, Joseph AU - Schwieder, Elmer PY - 2003 SN - 0877458529 1587298953 9781587298950 9780877458524 PB - Iowa City University of Iowa Press DB - UniCat KW - Buxton (Iowa) - Race relations. KW - Buxton (Iowa) - Social conditions. KW - Coal miners - Iowa - Buxton. KW - Coal miners KW - Labor & Workers' Economics KW - Business & Economics KW - Buxton (Iowa) KW - Race relations. KW - Social conditions. KW - Miners KW - Colliers (Coal miners) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:12019715 AB - 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 ER -