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James W. Loewen (1942-2021)

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Globe

Arizona

Basic Information

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

Sundown Town Status

Sundown Town in the Past?
Probable
Was there an ordinance?
Perhaps, Some Oral Evidence
Sign?
Perhaps, Some Oral Evidence
Year of Greatest Interest
0
Still Sundown?
Don’t Know

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 7,486 5,809 86 84 232 2,449 1,092
2010
2020

Method of Exclusion

  • Unknown

Main Ethnic Group(s)

  • Unknown

Group(s) Excluded

  • Asian
  • Hispanic

Comments

According to Katherine Benton-Cohen, an Assistant Professor of History at Louisiana State University, Globe was a famous “white man’s camp” in the mid-1900s, which meant that no Chinese were allowed to work in the town, and often times Mexicans were also excluded. Need more information to nail down as sundown.