New York
Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Suburb
- 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
- 1960
- Still Sundown?
- Surely Not
Census Information
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| 2000 | 35588 | 30639 | 1315 | 2892 | 35 | |||
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Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
There are two towns and a CDP named Brighton in New York state. This entry refers to the Brighton in Monroe County.
“Negro Physicist to Acquire Disputed Brighton
Property,” Rochester Times-Union, 8/30/1960.
Story in Rochester Democrat-Chronicle, 8/30/1960, 5 families in the neighborhood contributed to a fund to buy the house out from under the physicist’s offer with $500 more. Other families met with the black family to pledge support, though.
A neighbor of the Roselawn neighborhood in Brighton asserted that houses were not supposed to be sold to those of an “undesirable race or character.”