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?
- Possible
- Was there an ordinance?
- Perhaps, Some Oral Evidence
- Sign?
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
Census Information
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Method of Exclusion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
“In the sixties we lived in Brewster, Washington. The Indian reservation boundary line and the city limits
coincided. We had many Indian children in school and they were quite well accepted in activities and the classroom, if not socially. However, the town had
some ruling – I have no idea how formal – that they would not sell or rent to blacks. The fourth grade teacher, who was also the banker’s wife, said to me
that she thought it was wonderful that there was no discrimination in Brewster. I replied that as long as they refused to rent or sell to blacks, there probably
wouldn’t be any discrimination. She said that she had never thought of that… There were blacks living on the Bridgeport Bar (farm land between Bridgeport and
Brewster). There were none living on the Brewster Bar, which was closer to Brewster than the Bridgeport Bar.
I don’t remember who I asked about it, but I wasn’t surprised.”
-former Brewster resident