Kentucky
Basic Information
- Type of Place
- County
- Metro Area
- Politics c. 1860?
- Unions, Organized Labor?
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Probable
- Was there an ordinance?
- Sign?
- Year of Greatest Interest
- 1909
- Still Sundown?
- Probably
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1860 | ||||||||
| 1870 | ||||||||
| 1880 | 440 | |||||||
| 1890 | 11287 | 342 | ||||||
| 1900 | ||||||||
| 1910 | 15771 | 135 | ||||||
| 1920 | ||||||||
| 1930 | 12889 | 62 | ||||||
| 1940 | ||||||||
| 1950 | ||||||||
| 1960 | 16736 | 10 | ||||||
| 1970 | ||||||||
| 1980 | 25637 | 6 | 125 | |||||
| 1990 | 10 | |||||||
| 2000 | 30125 | 37 | 51 | 45 | ||||
| 2010 | 31448 | 49 | 59 | 88 | ||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Violent Expulsion
- Threat of Violence
- Private Bad Behavior
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
In 1908 Birmingham drove out its blacks, killing two and torturing others. (Waldrep, Christopher. Night Riders: Defending Community in the Black Patch, 1890-1915.Durham, N.C.:Duke UP,1993: 151)
After the incident, “notices were posted in Benton, the county seat, ordering all blacks out” (Jaspin, Eliot. Buried in the Bitter Waters, p. 100.)