Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Creating the Black Utopia of Buxton, Iowa

3.8/5 ( ratings)

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.

Pages: 176

Format: Paperback

Publisher: The History Press

Release: January 28, 2019

ISBN: 1467140465

ISBN 13: 9781467140461

Creating the Black Utopia of Buxton, Iowa

3.8/5 ( ratings)

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.

Pages: 176

Format: Paperback

Publisher: The History Press

Release: January 28, 2019

ISBN: 1467140465

ISBN 13: 9781467140461

More books from Rachelle Chase

Dreams and Desires

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Men On Fire

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Sex Lounge

3.3/5 ( ratings)

Secrets: Volume 13

3.4/5 ( ratings)

Hot Dreams

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Sin Club

4.5/5 ( ratings)

A Sinful Striptease (The Sin Club Book 1)

4.5/5 ( ratings)

A Sinful Proposition (The Sin Club Book 3)

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Rate this book!

Write a review?