Racial integration and harmony existed in the once vibrant community of Buxton, Iowa nearly 100 years ago. Buxton coal mine number 18 lasted only from 1900-1920, but the legacy of the short-lived town ...

Photo: Panoramic view of Buxton, 1910; State Historical Society of Iowa More than a century ago, there was a town where families of different races lived side by side. Neither housing nor schooling ...

OTTUMWA, Ia. —The Iowa caucus season is reviving a century-old story, about a long-lost town near here where thousands of African-American miners from the South lived side-by-side with poor white ...

NEARLY ONE YEAR AGO TODAY, GEORGE FLOYD WAS KILDLE BY FORMER MINNESOTA POLICE OFFICER DEREK CHAUVIN THE VIDEO OF HIS DEATH HAS BEEN SEEN. ALL OVER THE WORLD, IT SPAEDRK PROTESTS AND INTENSIFI SEDOCIAL ...

WATERLOO, Iowa (KWWL) – People looking to the past in order to move forward in Waterloo. People talked about Buxton, Iowa, a now-abandoned former mining town. A little farther south Buxton was a town ...

I’m still thinking about President Joe Biden’s inauguration speech — his call for unity and, with it, all that we can accomplish. The wrongs we can right. The work we can reward. Health care we can ...

The Iowa House on Thursday commemorated the former community of Buxton, which was near Lovilia in Monroe County. A coal-mining community in the late 1800s, Buxton had many African-Americans and ...

At every campaign stop in Iowa, Booker opens his remarks with a story about Buxton. At every campaign stop in Iowa, Booker opens his remarks with a story about Buxton, a now virtually-vanished mining ...

DAVENPORT, Iowa (KWQC) - Buxton, Iowa a town ahead of its time until it lost to it. Buxton was a small town built on racial equality in Monroe County that existed in the early 1900s. Some even called ...

More than a century ago, there was a town where families of different races lived side by side. Neither housing nor schooling was segregated, and blacks and whites received the same wages for the same ...