Buxton: A Black Utopia in the Heartland, an Expanded Edition

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Schwieder, Dorothy
Published: 09/03/2003
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 9780877458524
Pages: 276
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.55h x 5.57w x 0.66d