Illinois
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?
- Surely
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Yes, Strong Oral Tradition
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Probably Not, Although Still Very Few Black People
Census Information
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| 1990 | 1257 | |||||||
| 2000 | 1361 | 1342 | 2 | |||||
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| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
Thought you might want to know (if you don’t know already), not only was Ashland a sundown town, but it still had a “Nigger, don’t let the sun go down on you” sign up until %u201125 years ago. About a year ago I spoke to someone I know and she said she had relatives (or in%u2011laws) move there in the mid%u20111970s and the sign was still up. I asked when they took it down and she said about ten years later. (E-mail from a local resident, 2005)