Buxton: A Black Utopia in the Heartland, an Expanded Edition by Elmer Schwieder, Joseph Hraba, Dorothy Schwieder

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

Elmer Schwieder, Joseph Hraba, Dorothy Schwieder

276 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
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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 ove...

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