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?
- Surely
- 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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Method of Exclusion
- Threat of Violence
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Asian
Comments
“In early Goldfield, there were a number of black residents but ‘they never let a Chinese or a Jap get off the train. If they came, they were told to go right back.’ Blacks were driven out of some Nevada communities in the early 1900s. In Reno in 1904 Police Chief R. C. Leeper openly carried out a policy of arresting all unemployed blacks and forcing them to leave the city…”
Chinese were excluded from Goldfield, county seat of Esmeralda County, NV. Between 1909 and 1918, “No Chinese were allowed to get off the trains … at Goldfield. The town followed a strict policy of ‘no Chinese allowed.'” “No persons of Chinese descent were reported as residents of Esmeralda County” in the censuses after 1920. (see Loren B. Chan, “The Chinese in Nevada,” in Arif Dirlik, ed., Chinese on the American Frontier (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001), 96-97.)