Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Independent City or Town
- Metro Area
- Politics c. 1860?
- Don’t Know
- Unions, Organized Labor?
- Don’t Know
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
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1860 | ||||||||
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| 1910 | ||||||||
| 1920 | ||||||||
| 1930 | 6,494 | 230 | ||||||
| 1940 | 28,012 | 736 | ||||||
| 1950 | 46,282 | 605 | ||||||
| 1960 | 63,145 | 493 | ||||||
| 1970 | ||||||||
| 1980 | ||||||||
| 1990 | 92,639 | 4,798 | ||||||
| 2000 | ||||||||
| 2010 | ||||||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
- Jewish
Comments
email 9/2007:
%u201CNegroes were not allowed after 9:00 PM on the islands comprising Miami Beach. This was not a matter for any public discussion or public notice, by the way; it was quietly understood. (It can be assumed that the very rich may have housed some servants in their mansions with impunity, however.) Yet by the turn of the Century, 3,548 blacks were residing successfully on Miami Beach%u2014coming to over four percent of its total population.%u201D — Vaughn Davis Bornet, %u201CHow Race Relations Touched Me During a Long Lifetime, History News Network, hnn.us/articles/42042.html, 9-03-07
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Through 1960, most of Miami Beach’s black population were live-in domestic workers. In 1940, only 2 of the 736 black residents were underthe age of
14. In 1950 and 1960, the black population was overwhelmingly female.
“Miami Beach FL [was sundown] at least in the late 40s, early 50s. Some exceptions, like for hotel maids
and bus boys and Sarah Vaughan. Because she brought in [white] paying customers, I suppose, not because she was part owner of the hotel she
performed in.”
“Palm Beach and Miami Beach require all Negroes to be off the streets and out of the city limits by 8PM,
unless obviously engaged in domestic service, delivering merchandise, or some similar work.”