| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 256 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
A Bur oak book
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Bur oak book.
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| Note |
Original subtitle: Work and racial equality in a coal mining community. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-246) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Coal miners -- Iowa -- Buxton.
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Coal miners. |
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Iowa -- Buxton. |
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Buxton (Iowa) -- Race relations.
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Buxton (Iowa) -- Social conditions.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Hraba, Joseph.
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Schwieder, Elmer, 1925-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Schwieder, Dorothy, 1933- Buxton. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2003 9780877458524 (DLC) 2002041616 (OCoLC)51983283 |
| ISBN |
9781587298950 (electronic book) |
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1587298953 (electronic book) |
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