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You can't go back to Buxton

Title: You can't go back to Buxton [videorecording] / Iowa Public Television ; producer and director, Jody Lomenzo.
Publication: Des Moines, Iowa : Iowa Public Broadcasting Network, 1979-11.

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Description

1 videocassette of 1 (U-matic) (29 min.) : sd., col.; 3/4 in.

Summary

Presents the history of the coal mining camp of Buxton, Iowa where the majority of the residents were black. Former residents, Dorothy Schwieder of Iowa State University and still photographs describe the living and working conditions in Buxton, where the Consolidation Coal Company set up a residential community for its workers and their families. The company moved its operations after World War One and today nothing remains of the community except the Buxton Club, an organization established to preserve Buxton's history and cemetery.

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Genre/Form

Documentaries and factual works.
Black films and programs.

Note

This program forms part of the Communications Excellence to Black Audiences (CEBA) Award Collection, a competition sponsored by the World Institute of Black Communications, Inc.

Call Number

Sc Visual VRB-178

OCLC

NYPG89-F123

Title

You can't go back to Buxton [videorecording] / Iowa Public Television ; producer and director, Jody Lomenzo.

Imprint

Des Moines, Iowa : Iowa Public Broadcasting Network, 1979-11.

Country of Producing Entity

United States.

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Added Author

Lomenzo, Jody. Production personnel. Director

Iowa Public Television.

World Institute of Black Communications.

CEBA Collection.

Research Call Number

Sc Visual VRB-178 Original of Sc Visual DVD-752

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