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?
- Possible
- Was there an ordinance?
- Sign?
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Don’t Know
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1860 | ||||||||
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| 1910 | ||||||||
| 1920 | 7340 | 7062 | 4 | 274 | ||||
| 1930 | 7463 | 6643 | 2 | |||||
| 1940 | ||||||||
| 1950 | 10541 | 5 | ||||||
| 1960 | 10467 | 10205 | 4(female | |||||
| 1970 | ||||||||
| 1980 | ||||||||
| 1990 | 12823 | 10790 | 161 | 1655 | ||||
| 2000 | 13549 | 203 | ||||||
| 2010 | ||||||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
Comments
Email Oklahoma resident-Sep 2008
“expelled it’s black residents after the gruesome lynching and subsequent burning of John Lee on August 13 1911. It’s now home to Southeastern Oklahoma State University and is no longer sundown, although there are still very few blaks there.”