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James W. Loewen (1942-2021)

We mourn the loss of our friend and colleague and remain committed to the work he began.

Myakka City

Florida

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?
Don’t Know

Census Information

The available census data from 1860 to the present
Total White Black Asian Native Hispanic Other BHshld
1860
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Method of Exclusion

  • Violent Expulsion

Main Ethnic Group(s)

  • Unknown

Group(s) Excluded

  • Black

Comments

“Myakka City was a bustling, booming little
beneficiary of the Florida land boom of the 1920s.
Black Americans built the railroads and fueled the
lumber & turpentine industries. Then came the
economic devastation of the Great Depression and
hooded Klansmen returned Myakka City to its ethnic
‘purity.'”
“Blacks still don’t live here. They tell me of their
fears of being here after sundown. And Myakka City
‘historians’ have erased all mention of African
Americans. A recent sign in town said, ‘KKK Die
Niggers.'”
-posted to the web, 2002

The 1960 voter rolls list 270 white voters and 0
“colored”.

Myakka City is too small to be listed in the 2000
census, but the zip code it uses has a total population
of 4239 people, with only 23 black people, 10 of
whom are in 4 households.