Oklahoma
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?
- Perhaps, Some Oral Evidence
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Probably
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1860 | ||||||||
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| 1930 | 1,366 | 0 | ||||||
| 1940 | ||||||||
| 1950 | 1,813 | 3 | ||||||
| 1960 | 1,916 | 0 | ||||||
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| 1980 | ||||||||
| 1990 | 2,663 | 2 | 0 | |||||
| 2000 | ||||||||
| 2010 | ||||||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
I am from a small town of 3,500 in Stilwell,
Oklahoma. I could not wait to get out of that place… If
you don’t mind living in a place where the Bible Belt
rules the town and the word nigger is as common as
air is, then what a place to be! I remember while going
to school there was a black family who moved to town.
It’s as if they had never seen African Americans and
I’m certain they even wondered if they had tails. I just
couldn’t get over the ignorance level. For the longest
time there was a sign outside of town the read ‘don’t
let the sun set on your black ass’.”
-posted to the web 2002