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James W. Loewen (1942-2021)

We mourn the loss of our friend and colleague and remain committed to the work he began.

Saratoga Springs

New York

Basic Information

Type of Place
Independent City or Town
Metro Area
Politics c. 1860?
Don’t Know
Unions, Organized Labor?
Don’t Know

Sundown Town Status

Sundown Town in the Past?
Possible
Was there an ordinance?
Don't Know
Sign?
Don’t Know
Year of Greatest Interest
Still Sundown?
Surely Not

Census Information

The available census data from 1860 to the present
Total White Black Asian Native Hispanic Other BHshld
1860
1870
1880
1890
1900
1910
1920
1930
1940
1950
1960
1970
1980
1990
2000 26168 24493 815 271 63
2010
2020

Method of Exclusion

  • Zoning
  • Unknown

Main Ethnic Group(s)

  • Unknown

Group(s) Excluded

  • Black
  • Jewish

Comments

From Carey McWilliams, A Mask for Privilege (New Brunswick: Transaction, 1999 [1948]), 6-7:

In 1887, Alice H. Rhine wrote “Race Prejudice at Summer Resorts,” “‘This prejudice … is a new feature in the New World. Only within the present decade has there been an anti-Jewish sentiment openly displayed in the United States.’ From Saratoga Springs [1877 incident], Miss Rhine found that the practice of excluding Jews had spread throughout the Catskills and Adirondacks…”