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
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Method of Exclusion
- Violent Expulsion
- Violence Towards Newcomers
- Zoning
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
“1929: In Lincoln, NE, a mob of whites drove 200 Negroes from town after a white policeman was shot.
Gov. Weaver ordered that those persons driven out must be permitted to return, and that if any further
difficulties ensued, martial law would be instituted.”
In the 1940s, Lincoln bankers began redlining in Lincoln, in an attempt to restrict blacks to a neighborhood called “T-Town”.
The suburb of Havelock was started with restrictive covenants in place, and did not break until the 1970s.
It is now part of Lincoln.
Blacks migrated to Nebraska after the Civil War, and were brought in as railroad workers or strikebreakers
in later years. In some part of Nebraska they were welcomed or at least tolerated. In other places this
was not the case. “In Lincoln, for instance, in 1879, a group of 150 MS [Mississippi] Negroes who attempted
to settle there were driven out.”