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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