Oklahoma
Basic Information
- Type of Place
- County
- 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?
- Surely Not
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1860 | ||||||||
| 1870 | ||||||||
| 1880 | ||||||||
| 1890 | ||||||||
| 1900 | 17,912 | 9 | ||||||
| 1910 | 16,449 | 146 | ||||||
| 1920 | ||||||||
| 1930 | 20,282 | 986 | ||||||
| 1940 | ||||||||
| 1950 | 11,749 | 5 | ||||||
| 1960 | ||||||||
| 1970 | 7,979 | 537 | ||||||
| 1980 | ||||||||
| 1990 | ||||||||
| 2000 | 6,061 | 4,937 | 532 | 16 | 150 | 451 | 242 | |
| 2010 | ||||||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
“When the 1905 Greer County cotton crop was
threatened by a shortage of pickers, 150 black
workers were brought in to help save it. No African
Americans had ever been allowed to live in the area,
and their influx was resisted by some local whites
making serious threats in an attempt to scare the
workers away.”
-Deemed Unsuitable, R. Bruce Shepard, 1997
The importation of black workers broke Greer County,
and it is no longer sundown. There was an astounding
drop in black population (and total population)
between 1930 and 1950, but the black population has
since rebounded, although the total population
continues to decline.