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Schwieder, Dorothy Ann was born on November 28, 1933 in Presho, South Dakota, United States. Daughter of Walter George and Emma Suzanne (Anderson) Hubbard.
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Buxton: Work and Racial Equality in a Coal Mining Community
(From 1900 until the early 1920s, an unusual community exi...)
From 1900 until the early 1920s, an unusual community existed in America's heartland-Buxton, Iowa. Originally established by the Consolidation Coal Company, Buxton was the largest unincorporated coal mining community in Iowa. What made Buxton unique, however, is the fact that the majority of its 5,000 residents were African Americans-a highly unusual racial composition for a state which was over 90 percent white. At a time when both southern and northern blacks were disadvantaged and oppressed, blacks in Buxton enjoyed true racial integration-steady employment, above-average wages, decent housing, and minimal discrimination. For such reasons, Buxton was commonly known as "the black man's utopia in Iowa." Containing documentary evidence-including newspapers, census records, photographs, and state mining reports-along with interviews of 75 former residents, Buxton: Work and Racial Equality in a Coal Mining Community (originally published in 1987 and winner of the 1988 Benjamin Shambaugh Award) explores the Buxton experience from a variety of perspectives. The authors-an American historian, a family sociologist, and a race relations sociologist-provide a truly interdisciplinary history of one Iowa's most unique communities.
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Dorothy Ann Schwieder
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Bachelor, Dakota Wesleyan University, 1955. Master of Science, Iowa State University, 1968. Doctor of Philosophy, University Iowa, 1981.
Career
She joined the faculty of Iowa State University in 1966, becoming the first woman to be appointed as a professor in the Department of History. Schwieder authored a memoir and biography the late United States. Senator George McGovern, her former college professor She was the ninth of her family"s ten children.
Elmer Schwieder was a professor of sociology at Iowa State University.
In 1954, she received her Bachelor of Arts in psychology and history from Dakota Wesleyan University, where she studied under then-professor, George McGovern. She began her graduate studies in 1964 at Iowa State University, where she obtained her Master of Arts in history in 1968.
Scwieder completed her doctorate in history from the University of Iowa in 1981. Schwieder joined Dakota Wesleyan University in 1960 as a part-time instructor.
She then became a part-time professor at Iowa State University in 1966.
Dorothy Schwieder became the first female appointed professor within the Department of History. She was also the history department"s only, full-time female professor for nearly twenty years. She retired in 2001. She and Gretchen Van Houten co-edited Sesquicentennial History of Iowa State University: Tradition and Transformation, a history of International Skating Union published in 2007.
Dorothy Schwieder died on August 13, 2014, in Ames, Iowa, at the age of 80.
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Buxton: Work and Racial Equality in a Coal Mining Community
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Buxton: Work and Racial Equality in a Coal Mining Community
Membership
Member Organization American Historians, History Communal Society of America, State History Society Iowa.
Connections
Married Elmer William Schwieder, March 20, 1955. Children: Diane Schwieder Risius, David William.
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1955
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1968
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1960 - 1962
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1964 - 1981