Creating the Black Utopia of Buxton, Iowa, Hardcover/Rachelle Chase - History Press Library Editions

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Description Some have called Buxton a Black Utopia.
Author Rachelle Chase details the amazing events that created this unique community and what made it disappear..
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.
He returned to Buxton and was hired by the coal company, where he treated both Black and white patients.
Carter was the first African American to get a medical degree from the University of Iowa in 1907.
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This inclusive approach provided opportunity for its residents.
It was a thriving, one-of-a-kind coal mining town created by the Consolidation Coal Company.
In the town of five thousand residents, established in 1900, African Americans and Caucasians lived, worked and attended school together.
Description Some have called Buxton a Black Utopia