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Buxton : a Black utopia in the heartland /
From 1900 until the early 1920s, 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 it...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
©2003.
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| Colección: | Bur oak book.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | From 1900 until the early 1920s, 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 hous. |
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| Notas: | Original subtitle: Work and racial equality in a coal mining community. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xx, 256 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-246) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781587298950 1587298953 0877458529 9780877458524 |