Skip to content

LOST BUXTON

Information about Buxton, Iowa by Rachelle Chase

  • Home
  • About
  • Buxton Posts
  • Buy Books
  • Store
  • Account
  • Contact

Tag: race

A Day in Buxton / Buxton / People / Research Finds

1905: Black Author Writes Science Fiction Novel About Race

In 1906, Robert Gilbert Wells, an African American author and publisher in Buxton, Iowa ran ads soliciting agents to sell his new book, “Anthropology Applied to the American White Man and Negro.” The ad placed in the March 3, 1906 issue of the Richmond Planet provided a summary of the book:   AGENTS WANTED. To […]

on April 10, 2018December 9, 2018 by Rachelle Chase
Buxton News
Sign up and receive the latest news

Story of Buxton – From Muchakinock to Today

Creating the Black Utopia of Buxton, Iowa
$21.99

A Pictorial History of Buxton

Lost Buxton
$21.99

Tags

African American African Americans author B.F. Cooper Buxton Buxton Iowa Cakewalk Cake Walk Christine Blasey Ford confederate Consolidation Coal Company Cory Booker Creative Visions equality evangelist fascist Featured Hattie Hutchison Hobart McNeill inclusion invention Iowa Lonnie Lawrence Dennis Lottie Armstrong Mark Smith Marshalltown Muchakinock people places preacher presentation President William McKinley race science fiction Shumate Staunton Virginia Stone Mansion Wilbur McNeill writing

About Buxton, Iowa

In 1900, at a time when Jim Crow laws, segregation, and the Ku Klux Klan kept blacks and whites separated, residents in Buxton, Iowa—a thriving coal mining town of 5,000 residents established by Consolidation Coal Company—lived, worked, and went to school side by side. African Americans—miners, teachers, business owners, doctors, lawyers, and more—made up more than half of the population for the first 10 years and remained the largest ethnic group until 1914. By 1922, Buxton was a ghost town.

Categories

A Day in Buxton 4 Posts
Books 2 Posts
Buxton 25 Posts
Early 1900s 2 Posts
News 5 Posts
People 8 Posts
Places 1 Posts
Research Finds 6 Posts
The World & Buxton 2 Posts
The Writing Life 4 Posts

About Rachelle Chase

Footer Widgets 3rd Col
Rachelle Chase is a published author and senior business analyst whose latest passion is Buxton, Iowa.
COPYRIGHT © 2018 RACHELLE CHASE. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.