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?
- Surely
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Yes, Photo or Written Evidence
- Year of Greatest Interest
- 1901
- Still Sundown?
Census Information
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Method of Exclusion
- Violent Expulsion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
E. Jaspin, BURIED IN THE BITTER WATERS, p. 79: “The racial cleansing in Stroud began about 9PM [August c.27, 1901] when a mob of 25 attacked a shack where several black laborers lived. They drove the workers off, burned their possessions, and upended the hut…. At the end of the night the rioters posted a sign in town that said, ‘Nigger, don’t let the sun go down on U.’…”