Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Metro Area
- Politics c. 1860?
- Unions, Organized Labor?
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- 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
Comments
Although I (Jim Loewen) lived in MS for eight years in the 1960s and 1970s, I was not researching sundown towns then. However, I did make an exhaustive search and think I have located every potential sundown town of any size. Most famous is Mize, and its fame for this policy is quite interesting, considering it is a small hamlet. That such a small sundown town would be known for it shows how unusual these communities are in the traditional South. In the Midwest, West, etc., towns of 50,000 to >100,000 could have such policies and not be as known for it as Mize.
Briefly (c.1945-70), two or three suburbs (of Jackson and on the Gulf Coast) were apparently sundown towns, although I have not yet obtained details or confirmation.
Two towns in the far NE corner were all-white for decades, so I suspect they too were sundown, but I realize that that part of Mississippi has only a small black population anyway.