Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Other
- 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
- 1926
- Still Sundown?
- Surely Not
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1860 | ||||||||
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| 1880 | ||||||||
| 1890 | ||||||||
| 1900 | 19025 | 1108 | ||||||
| 1910 | ||||||||
| 1920 | ||||||||
| 1930 | 0 | |||||||
| 1940 | 13339 | 386 | ||||||
| 1950 | 11976 | 281 | ||||||
| 1960 | 13030 | |||||||
| 1970 | ||||||||
| 1980 | ||||||||
| 1990 | ||||||||
| 2000 | 20709 | 14239 | 1975 | 1922 | 49 | 4839 | ||
| 2010 | ||||||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Violent Expulsion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
Carteret is one of New Jersey’s many boroughs, a type of municipality unique to the state.
In Middlesex County, overlooks Staten Island.
“1926: White mobs burned churches and attacked Negro families during riots in Carteret, NJ. As a result of the riots all Negroes left the town. The rioting followed the indictment of Robert Ducrest, a Negro, for the murder of John Carroll, a white boxer.” (see Peter M. Bergman and Mort N. Bergman, The Chronological History of the Negro in America (NY: Mentor, 1969), 423.) [The departure had to be temporary, though, because blacks were back in the 1930 census.]
Robert Minor, white Communist, wrote about Carteret, 1926, “in which armed whites drove the entire black population from the town, burned a black church, ‘and generally conducted an organized reign of terror of the sort which America calls a race riot and which the old Russia of the now-dead czar called a pogrom.’” (see Robert Minor, “After Garvey – What?” Workers Monthly, 5/1926, quoted in Clarke, Marcus Garvey, 165-66.)