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?
- Probable
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Surely Not
Census Information
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| 1960 | 12230 | 5363 | ||||||
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Method of Exclusion
- Zoning
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Jewish
Comments
“Notorious as one of the nation’s most completely
anti-Semitic communities is Delray Beach… Delray
Beach was well described by one of its leading real
estate firms as ‘the only city on the East Coast fully
restricted to Gentiles both in buying and selling.'”
The US Census ceased tabulating religion of US
inhabitants in 1930.
“A retired [Jewish] IBM executive was helping me
with computer plans, he said that he was steered out
of Delray by real estate agents.”
While Delray has always had a significant black
population, for decades they were restricted to one
neighborhood. Swinton Avenue was the sundown line
– blacks were not to cross it after sunset.
One resident whose family has lived in Delray Beach since the 1920s claims that it was never a sundown town, however, “the area has always been extremely anti-Semitic.” (September 2013)
Delray Beach is now substantially Jewish, therefore the community has moved past its racism in some respects.