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?
- Possible
- Was there an ordinance?
- Sign?
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
Census Information
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Method of Exclusion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
Email 2/2015 from a former, nearby resident: “Utica is an older town, I lived in its extension Shelby Township. The suburbs were mainly white, with 2 or 3 black people in the graduating class of 1986. Everybody was open to the Black classmates, but not many lived there.
I obtained a warranty deed copy of my neighbor’s house, stating that the property may not be sold to Negroes, dating back to 1952. Of course this was outlawed by the Fair Housing act of 1968.
I live in Shelby Township again and my subdivision is somewhat diverse: Blacks, Polish, Albanian, Indian, White, and some of them original owners.
Two longtime resident have said that there used to be a local ordinance that outlawed black people in the town after dark.
A longtime resident said she knew the telephone operator in town. The operator would frequently have to transfer calls to the police to alert them that a black man or woman would be traveling through town. The black man or woman had to have a police escort.