1900
Buxton's Integrated Mining Community and Decline
Buxton was a rare integrated coal-mining town where Black workers held skilled jobs and civic roles; its later disappearance illustrates how economic change and segregation erased such communities.
Buxton, Iowa, IA
African American
Jim Crow
Labor
Racial violence
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Buxton was a rare integrated coal-mining town where Black workers held skilled jobs and civic roles; its later disappearance illustrates how economic change and segregation erased such communities.