Buxton: A Black Utopia in the Heartland
Buxton: A Black Utopia in the Heartland By Dorothy Schweider, Joseph Hraba, Elmer Schwieder
2003 | 276 Pages | ISBN: 0877458529 | PDF | 10 MB
2003 | 276 Pages | ISBN: 0877458529 | PDF | 10 MB
From 1900 until the early 1920s, an unusual community existed in America's heartland. It was the largest unincorporated coal-mining community in Iowa and the majority of its 5000 residents were African Americans - unusual for a state which was over 90 per cent white.