Ohio
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?
- Perhaps, Some Oral Evidence
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Surely Not
Census Information
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| 1990 | 46022 | 5051 | ||||||
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Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
“I asked my Sociology professor at Wright State University if he knew of any towns in our vicinity that used to have these policies, and he believes that Middletown, Ohio was once such a town. Located between Dayton and Cincinnati, he asserts that bilboards there announced that African Americans had to leave at night through the 1950s. You may already be aware of this, but I thought I’d mention it “just in case.”” sociology professor I referenced is Dr. David Orenstein, david.orenstein@wright.edu, Sociology Department’s phone number is (937) 775 2667.
“You do try to get out of there by dark. I went to Miami of Ohio, and my father refused to go through there after dark.”