Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Independent City or Town
- Metro Area
- Politics c. 1860?
- Unions, Organized Labor?
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Surely
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Probably Not, Although Still Very Few Black People
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1930 | 1,590 | 83 | ||||||
| 1940 | 1,338 | 168 | ||||||
| 1950 | 1,893 | 199 | ||||||
| 1960 | 1,938 | 27 | ||||||
| 1970 | 2,480 | 1 | ||||||
| 1980 | ||||||||
| 1990 | 3,098 | 2 | ||||||
| 2000 | 3,872 | 37 | 3 | |||||
| 2010 | ||||||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Private Bad Behavior
- Reputation
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
“For years, black people wouldn’t even stop in Sheridan for gas.”
The dominant economic force in Sheridan was the owner of the local mill. In the late 1950s, the mill
owner made all of his black employees move out of town. “He just didn’t care for blacks being in Sheridan. He wouldn’t have them in school here. He had little shacks for them. He told them they could have the shacks and move them out, or he would burn them
down.”
-elderly Sheridan resident
While Sheridan has 37 black residents, 30 are adult males, indicating some type of institutional residence. Aside from this institution, there are 3
black households and 3 biracial children living in the town.
According to a resident of Sheridan: “I am white and my husband is black. At the Wal-Mart in Sheridan, some customers will not let the black workers check them out. We don%u2019t trust daycare just because of what we are told. We stay to ourselves and don%u2019t eat out because we don%u2019t trust what they would do to the food. At a local restaurant before my husband was handed his food, we watched as the cook put a mop on his head and started saying slangs. That was the first and last time we went out to eat.”