Mine Work in Iowa Means Opportunity for African American Workers in the Early 1900s

In the early 1900s, hundreds of African-Americans came to Iowa to work in coal mines. This segment from the "Searching for Buxton" documentary features an historian's account of why they came and how they encouraged families and friends to join them.
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Searching for Buxton was produced for Iowa Public Television by the Communication Research Institute of William Penn University.