Buxton: A Black Utopia in the Heartland
From 1900 to the early 1920s, an unusual community existed in America's heartland: Buxton, Iowa, established by the Consolidation Coal Company. The majority of Buxton's five thousand 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 housing and...
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From 1900 to the early 1920s, an unusual community existed in America's heartland: Buxton, Iowa, established by the Consolidation Coal Company. The majority of Buxton's five thousand 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 housing and minimal discrimination. For such reasons, Buxton was commonly known as 'the black man's utopia in Iowa.' Now, eighty years after the town's demise, this truly interdisciplinary history of a unique Iowa community remains a compelling story.
A Buxton Retrospective: Introduction to the 2003 EditionAcknowledgmentsIntroduction31Muchakinock: Buxton's Historical Antecedent132The Creation of a Community403Workers in a Company Town644The Consolidation Coal Company885Family Life1136Ethnicity1487Buxton and Haydock: The Final Years1858A Perspective210Notes223Selected Bibliography241Index247
