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?
- Probably Not, Although Still Very Few Black People
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1860 | ||||||||
| 1870 | ||||||||
| 1880 | ||||||||
| 1890 | 4,459 | 1 | ||||||
| 1900 | ||||||||
| 1910 | ||||||||
| 1920 | ||||||||
| 1930 | 9,570 | 4 | ||||||
| 1940 | 9855 | 1 | ||||||
| 1950 | 10425 | 3 | ||||||
| 1960 | ||||||||
| 1970 | 9990 | 1 | ||||||
| 1980 | 10199 | 6 | ||||||
| 1990 | 10,104 | 21 | ||||||
| 2000 | 10,000 | 21 | ||||||
| 2010 | 10355 | 53 | 61 | 106 | ||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Other
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
A black family attempting to move into Cadillac in the
1970s could not secure a loan.
“I talked with my Mom and sister this past weekend and [my mother] can remember no blacks living in
Cadillac all the time she was growing up. Said we did have the whistle but we always called it the water
whistle… never knew that it had any other reference.
“She doesn’t remember any black persons working in the wealthy homes but [that was] not our social class, so there could have been.
“My sister couldn’t remember the name of the [black] student that moved into Cadillac during her high school years but it would have been in the early 70s.
[The student’s] father was going to run the Hoxeyville Detention ‘Farm’ for troubled juveniles. He wanted to
live in the ‘big’ city so his kids would have a better education; Hoxeyville was a ‘blinker light’ village.
They were able to rent when the family first came into town, but when they wanted to buy, they were refused
loans and left after that first year. I don’t know for sure what the reasons were, but it seems that they
knew they were not welcome in Cadillac.”
-posted to the web, 2005
October 2007
The National Socialist Movement has a chapter in this town. Dan Carlson is one of the leaders. The have been recruiting on and off at Central Michigan University over the past few years.
http://www.adl.org/learn/extremism_in_america_updates/groups/national_socialist_movement/NSM-2005-12.htm
“Another example occurred this past spring when NSM members cleaned up a local park in Cadillac, Michigan, and received a certificate of appreciation from the mayor of the town.”