Exploring Buried Buxton

Author : David M. Gradwohl,Nancy M. Osborn
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1990-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781587296659

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Exploring Buried Buxton by David M. Gradwohl,Nancy M. Osborn Pdf

Few sources before have dealt with the archaeology of African American settlements outside the Atlantic seaboard and the southern states. This book describes in detail the archaeological investigations conducted at the town site of Buxton, Iowa, a coal mining community inhabited by a significantly large population of blacks between 1900 and 1925. David Gradwohl and Nancy Osborn present the archaeology of Buxton from “the group up” to articulate the material remains with the data acquired from archival studies and oral history interviews. They also examine the broader significance of the Buxton experience in terms of those who lived there and their children and grandchildren who have heard about Buxton all their lives.

Author : Dorothy Schwieder,Joseph Hraba,Elmer Schwieder
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781587298950

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Buxton by Dorothy Schwieder,Joseph Hraba,Elmer Schwieder Pdf

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 housing, and minimal discrimination. For such reasons, Buxton was commonly known as “the black man's utopia in Iowa.” Containing documentary evidence—including newspapers, census records, photographs, and state mining reports—along with interviews of 75 former residents, Buxton: Work and Racial Equality in a Coal Mining Community (originally published in 1987 and winner of the 1988 Benjamin Shambaugh Award) explored the Buxton experience from a variety of perspectives. The authors—an American historian, a family sociologist, and a race relations sociologist—provided a truly interdisciplinary history of one Iowa's most unique communities. Now, eighty years after the town's demise and fifteen years after Buxton's original publication, the history of this Iowa town remains a compelling story that continues to capture people's imaginations. In Buxton: A Black Utopia in the Heartland, the authors offer further reflections upon their original study and the many former Buxton residents who shared their memories. In the new essay, “A Buxton Perspective,” issues such as social class and the town's continuing legacy are addressed. The voices captured inBuxton, although recorded over twenty years ago, still resonate with exuberance, affection, and poignancy; this expanded edition will bring their amazing stories back to the forefront of Iowa and American history.

Author : Rachelle Chase
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9781467124386

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Lost Buxton by Rachelle Chase Pdf

Buxton, Iowa, was an unincorporated coal mining town, established by Consolidation Coal Company in 1900. At a time when Jim Crow laws and segregation kept blacks and whites separated throughout the nation, Buxton was integrated. African American and Caucasian residents lived, worked, and went to school side by side. The company provided miners with equal housing and equal pay, regardless of race, and offered opportunities for African Americans beyond mining. Professional African Americans included a bank cashier, the justice of the peace, constables, doctors, attorneys, store clerks, and teachers. Businesses, such as a meat market, a drugstore, a bakery, a music store, hotels, millinery shops, a saloon, and restaurants, were owned by African Americans. For 10 years, African Americans made up more than half of the population. Unfortunately, in the early 1920s, the mines closed, and today, only a cemetery, a few foundations, and some crumbling ruins remain.

Author : Rachelle D.Henry
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467140461

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Creating the Black Utopia of Buxton, Iowa by Rachelle D.Henry Pdf

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.

Author : Richard V. Francaviglia
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1997-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0877456097

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Hard Places by Richard V. Francaviglia Pdf

Working with the premise that there are much meaning and value in the "repelling beauty" of mining landscapes, Richard Francaviglia identifies the visual clues that indicate an area has been mined and tells us how to read them, showing the interconnections among all of America's major mining districts. With a style as bold as the landscape he reads and with photographs to match, he interprets the major forces that have shaped the architecture, design, and topography of mining areas. Covering many different types of mining and mining locations, he concludes that mining landscapes have come to symbolize the turmoil between what our society elects to view as two opposing forces: culture and nature.

Author : William E. Whittaker,Lynn M. Alex,Mary De La Garza
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781609383374

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The Archaeological Guide to Iowa by William E. Whittaker,Lynn M. Alex,Mary De La Garza Pdf

Provides information on 68 important archaeological sites in Iowa, including sites of every type, from every time period, and in every part of the state.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Minorities
ISBN : WISC:89077169837

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Explorations in Sights and Sounds by Anonim Pdf

Author : Paul Finkelman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2637 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 9780195167795

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Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: O-T by Paul Finkelman Pdf

Alphabetically-arranged entries from O to T that explores significant events, major persons, organizations, and political and social movements in African-American history from 1896 to the twenty-first-century.

Author : Terrion L. Williamson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781948742887

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Black in the Middle by Terrion L. Williamson Pdf

An ambitious, honest portrait of the Black experience in flyover country. One of The St. Louis Post Dispatch's Best Books of 2020. Black Americans have been among the hardest hit by the rapid deindustrialization and

Author : Jack Salzman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1124 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1990-05-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0521365597

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American Studies by Jack Salzman Pdf

This volume supplements the acclaimed three volume set published in 1986 and consists of an annotated listing of American Studies monographs published between 1984 and 1988. There are more than 6,000 descriptive entries in a wide range of categories: anthropology and folklore, art and architecture, history, literature, music, political science, popular culture, psychology, religion, science and technology, and sociology.

Author : Charles Connerly
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781609387204

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Green, Fair, and Prosperous by Charles Connerly Pdf

At the center of what was once the tallgrass prairie, Iowa has stood out for clearing the land and becoming one of the most productive agricultural states in the nation. But its success is challenged by multiple issues including but not limited to a decline in union representation of meatpacking workers; lack of demographic diversity; the advent of job-replacing mechanization; growing income inequality; negative contributions to and effects of climate change and environmental hazards. To become green, fair, and prosperous, Connerly argues that Iowa must reckon with its past and the fact that its farm economy continues to pollute waterways, while remaining utterly unprepared for climate change. Iowa must recognize ways in which it can bolster its residents’ standard of living and move away from its demographic tradition of whiteness. For development to be sustainable, society must balance it with environmental protection and social justice. Connerly provides a crucial roadmap for how Iowans can move forward and achieve this balance.

Author : Patricia Reid-Merritt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1117 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781440856013

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A State-by-State History of Race and Racism in the United States [2 volumes] by Patricia Reid-Merritt Pdf

Providing chronologies of important events, historical narratives from the first settlement to the present, and biographies of major figures, this work offers readers an unseen look at the history of racism from the perspective of individual states. From the initial impact of European settlement on indigenous populations to the racial divides caused by immigration and police shootings in the 21st century, each American state has imposed some form of racial restriction on its residents. The United States proclaims a belief in freedom and justice for all, but members of various minority racial groups have often faced a different reality, as seen in such examples as the forcible dispossession of indigenous peoples during the Trail of Tears, Jim Crow laws' crushing discrimination of blacks, and the manifest unfairness of the Chinese Exclusion Act. Including the District of Columbia, the 51 entries in these two volumes cover the state-specific histories of all of the major minority and immigrant groups in the United States, including African Americans, Hispanics, Asian Americans, and Native Americans. Every state has had a unique experience in attempting to build a community comprising multiple racial groups, and the chronologies, narratives, and biographies that compose the entries in this collection explore the consequences of racism from states' perspectives, revealing distinct new insights into their respective racial histories.

Author : Marvin Bergman
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781609380113

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Iowa History Reader by Marvin Bergman Pdf

In 1978 historian Joseph Wall wrote that Iowa was “still seeking to assert its own identity. . . . It has no real center where the elite of either power, wealth, or culture may congregate. Iowa, in short, is middle America.” In this collection of well-written and accessible essays, originally published in 1996, seventeen of the Hawkeye State’s most accomplished historians reflect upon the dramatic and not-so-dramatic shifts in the middle land’s history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Marvin Bergman has drawn upon his years of editing the Annals of Iowa to gather contributors who cross disciplines, model the craft of writing a historical essay, cover more than one significant topic, and above all interpret history rather than recite it. In his preface to this new printing, he calls attention to publications that begin to fill the gaps noted in the 1996 edition. Rather than survey the basic facts, the essayists engage readers in the actual making of Iowa’s history by trying to understand the meaning of its past. By providing comprehensive accounts of topics in Iowa history that embrace the broader historiographical issues in American history, such as the nature of Progressivism and Populism, the debate over whether women’s expanded roles in wartime carried over to postwar periods, and the place of quantification in history, the essayists contribute substantially to debates at the national level at the same time that they interpret Iowa’s distinctive culture.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1995-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0816514925

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Raising Arizona's Dams by Anonim Pdf

This is the engrossing story of the unsung heroes who did the day-to-day work of building Arizona's dams, focusing on the lives of laborers and their families who created temporary construction communities during the building of seven major dams in central Arizona. The book focuses primarily on the 1903-1911 Roosevelt Dam camps and the 1926-1927 Camp Pleasant at Waddell Dam, although other camps dating from the 1890s through the 1940s are discussed as well. The book is liberally illustrated with historic photographs of the camps and the people who occupied them while building the dams.

Author : Carol Kammen,Norma Prendergast
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0742503992

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Encyclopedia of Local History by Carol Kammen,Norma Prendergast Pdf

How is local history thought about? How should it be approached? Through brief, succinct notes and essay-length entries, the Encyclopedia of Local History presents ideas to consider, sources to use, historical fields and trends to explore. It also provides commentary on a number of subjects, including the everyday topics that most local historians encounter. A handy reference tool that no public historian's desk should be without!