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Creating the Black Utopia of Buxton, Iowa

Title
Creating the Black Utopia of Buxton, Iowa / Rachelle Chase.
Author
Chase, Rachelle
Publication
  • Charleston, SC : The History Press, 2019.
  • ©2019

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Description
176 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Summary
Some have called Buxton a Black Utopia. In the town of five thousand residents, established in 1900, African Americans and Caucasians lived worked and attended school together. It was a thriving, one-of-a-kind coal mining town created by the Consolidation Coal Company. This inclusive approach provided opportunity for its residents. Dr. E.A. Carter was the first African American to get a medical degree from the University of Iowa in 1907. He returned to Buxton and was hired by the coal company, where he treated both black and white patients. Attorney George Woodson ran for file clerk in the Iowa Senate for the Republican Party in 1898, losing to a white man by one vote. Author Rachelle Chase details the amazing events that created this unique community and what made it disappear. --
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 160-170) and index.
Call Number
Sc E 19-1009
ISBN
  • 9781467140461
  • 1467140465
LCCN
2018958994
OCLC
1048941241
Author
Chase, Rachelle, author.
Title
Creating the Black Utopia of Buxton, Iowa / Rachelle Chase.
Publisher
Charleston, SC : The History Press, 2019.
Copyright Date
©2019
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 160-170) and index.
Local Subject
Black author.
Research Call Number
Sc E 19-1009
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