# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Buxton, A Black Utopia in Iowa?
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sun, 16 Feb, 2020 at 02:30 pm – Sun, 16 Feb, 2020 at 03:30 pm
- **Event Description**: Buxton was a small, unincorporated coal mining town bordering Mahaska and Monroe counties, was unusual for the 1900s in that African American and white residents lived and worked equally, side by side. With as many as 10,000 residents, it was the largest town in America where African-Americans were in the majority.   Author Rachelle Chase listened to interviews of over 60 Buxton residents, combed through archives and documents to write her book, “Creating the Black Utopia of Buxton, Iowa.” Ms. Chase will share the stories she discovered and what the legacy of Buxton is today.
   
Free and open to the public thanks to the support of West Des Moines Historical Society Members, the West Des Moines Library Friends Foundation and the Iowa Arts Council.

https://wdmlibrary.librarymarket.com/iowa-files-buxton-black-utopia-iowa
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/west-des-moines/buxton-a-black-utopia-in-iowa/200018376758927
- **Event Categories**: Art, Nonprofit, literary-art
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 0

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: West Des Moines
- **state**: IA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: West Des Moines Public Library
- **lat**: 41.566034836518
- **long**: -93.759155008149
- **full address**: West Des Moines Public Library, 4000 Mills Civic Pkwy, West Des Moines, Iowa 50265, United States

## Event gallery

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Buxton, A Black Utopia in Iowa? being held?
  - **A:** Buxton, A Black Utopia in Iowa? takes place on Sun, 16 Feb, 2020 at 02:30 pm to Sun, 16 Feb, 2020 at 03:30 pm at West Des Moines Public Library, 4000 Mills Civic Pkwy, West Des Moines, Iowa 50265, United States.

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