Michigan
Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Suburb
- Metro Area
- Detroit
- Politics c. 1860?
- Unions, Organized Labor?
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Unlikely
- Was there an ordinance?
- No
- Sign?
- No
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Surely Not
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1910 | ||||||||
| 1920 | 4394 | 7 | ||||||
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| 1990 | 12,180 | 4,787 | ||||||
| 2000 | 11,229 | 5,859 | 4,555 | 21 | 73 | 1,004 | 377 | |
| 2010 | ||||||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
One half of Ecorse has been open to black residents for many years. The other side was not, I believe. Nevertheless, for the Detroit area, that’s an open city!
Before about 1925, its black population was so small that it might have practiced exclusion.