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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schwieder, Dorothy, 1933-2014
Otros Autores: Hraba, Joseph, Schwieder, Elmer, 1925-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2003.
Colección:Bur oak book.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.