At a time when the Jim Crow laws were in full force, there was a town in Iowa where black and white Americans lived side by side on equal terms. Rachelle Chase has brought that town alive again in the images and stories of Lost Buxton. This is a history of Buxton told in voices of the people who lived there. Buxton Iowa was a mining town, different in many ways from other mining towns, Fifty percent of its residents were of African American descent. Many of 40 independent businesses were owned by black business men. The schools and neighborhoods were fully integrated. An example from the past of what the future should be. Rachelle shows us the Buxton thas was; a town ahead of its time.
Learn how Chase, a senior business analyst for Fortune 500 companies and a published romance author with an interest in African American history, became interested in Buxton after moving to Iowa, and how she found a publisher for this unique story.[/sdf_text_block][sdf_image id=”sdf-element-1″ module_width=”1/1″ title=”” alt_text=”” image=”https://vch7348tts5.c.updraftclone.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Green-Quote-e1453672031762.png” top_margin=”15px” bottom_margin=”” entrance_animation=”No” entrance_animation_duration=”” image_alignment=”left” image_size=”sdf-image-md-12″ image_shape=”square” lightbox=”no” link=”” link_title=”” target=”None” nofollow=”no” class=””][/sdf_image][sdf_blockquote id=”sdf-element-2″ module_width=”1/1″ top_margin=”” bottom_margin=”” blockquote_alignment=”left” quote_icon=”yes” quote_icon_size=”fa-lg” blockquote_author=”Rachelle Chase” cite_title=”” cite_link=”” entrance_animation=”No” entrance_animation_duration=”” class=””]… the freedom to live, the freedom to choose, the freedom to be ” – for the African Americans living in Buxton, “that must have felt like Utopia.[/sdf_blockquote][sdf_button id=”sdf-element-3″ module_width=”1/1″ top_margin=”10px” bottom_margin=”” button_icon=”fa-hand-o-left” button_icon_position=”icon-left-side” entrance_animation=”No” entrance_animation_duration=”” button_layout=”left” style=”link” size=”btn-lg” link=”http://rachellechase.com/lost-buxton/” target=”_blank” nofollow=”yes” class=””]Learn more about Buxton[/sdf_button][sdf_video_oembed id=”sdf-element-4″ module_width=”1/1″ video_oembed_url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwwdv4Zn8Rs&feature=youtu.be” top_margin=”” bottom_margin=”” video_oembed_aspect_ratio=”16by9″]Rachelle Chase – “Lost Buxton”[/sdf_video_oembed][/sdf_col][sdf_col id=”sdf-col-2″ width=”1/3″][sdf_image id=”sdf-element-0″ module_width=”1/1″ title=”” alt_text=”” image=”https://vch7348tts5.c.updraftclone.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/rachelle-chase-400×400-e1513890183247.jpg” top_margin=”” bottom_margin=”20px” entrance_animation=”No” entrance_animation_duration=”” image_alignment=”left” image_size=”sdf-image-md-12″ image_shape=”square” lightbox=”no” link=”” link_title=”” target=”None” nofollow=”no” class=””][/sdf_image][sdf_image id=”sdf-element-1″ module_width=”1/1″ title=”” alt_text=”” image=”https://vch7348tts5.c.updraftclone.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/carolinequotes.jpg” top_margin=”” bottom_margin=”” entrance_animation=”No” entrance_animation_duration=”” image_alignment=”left” image_size=”sdf-image-md-12″ image_shape=”square” lightbox=”no” link=”” link_title=”” target=”None” nofollow=”no” class=””][/sdf_image][sdf_blockquote id=”sdf-element-2″ module_width=”1/1″ top_margin=”0″ bottom_margin=”” blockquote_alignment=”left” quote_icon=”yes” quote_icon_size=”fa-lg” blockquote_author=”Mark Twain” cite_title=”” cite_link=”” entrance_animation=”No” entrance_animation_duration=”” class=””]Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.[/sdf_blockquote][sdf_image id=”sdf-element-3″ module_width=”1/1″ title=”” alt_text=”” image=”https://vch7348tts5.c.updraftclone.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Buxton-Cover-208×300.jpg” top_margin=”” bottom_margin=”20px” entrance_animation=”No” entrance_animation_duration=”” image_alignment=”left” image_size=”sdf-image-md-12″ image_shape=”square” lightbox=”no” link=”” link_title=”” target=”None” nofollow=”no” class=””][/sdf_image][/sdf_col][/sdf_hero]
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