Kentucky
Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Independent City or Town
- Metro Area
- Cumberlands
- Politics c. 1860?
- Don’t Know
- Unions, Organized Labor?
- Don’t Know
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Probable
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Perhaps, Some Oral Evidence
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Probably Not, Although Still Very Few Black People
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1930 | 2084 | 3 | ||||||
| 1940 | 1844 | 0 | ||||||
| 1950 | 1681 | 1 | ||||||
| 1960 | 1458 | 0 | ||||||
| 1970 | 1982 | 1 | ||||||
| 1980 | ||||||||
| 1990 | 4014 | 15 | ||||||
| 2000 | 3645 | 26 | ||||||
| 2010 | ||||||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
One historian notes:
“I know people who grew up in the area (towns like Russell, Ky., in the northeast near the Ohio River) who remember such signs at the town’s edge. Indeed, my friend told me that when he was a lad in the 1940s, word spread that “a black man was walking through town.” My friend said that all the children and many of the adults rushed downtown to see the black person. My friend said many people who watched the black man walk through town had never seen a black person before.”