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James W. Loewen (1942-2021)

We mourn the loss of our friend and colleague and remain committed to the work he began.

Dover

Arkansas

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?
Probable
Was there an ordinance?
Don't Know
Sign?
Perhaps, Some Oral Evidence
Year of Greatest Interest
Still Sundown?
Probably

Census Information

The available census data from 1860 to the present
Total White Black Asian Native Hispanic Other BHshld
1860
1870
1880
1890
1900
1910
1920
1930
1940
1950
1960
1970
1980
1990
2000 1,329 1,294 3 2 9 26 8
2010
2020

Method of Exclusion

  • Unknown

Main Ethnic Group(s)

  • Unknown

Group(s) Excluded

  • Black

Comments

“Until at least a few years ago they had a welcome sign at the city limits that read ‘Welcome to Dover:
Don’t Let the Sun Set on Your Black Ass’.”
-Arkansas State University professor

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3/2008 email
I heard some variation of the sentence, ‘Blacks shouldn%u2019t go to Dover and definitely not after dark’ more times than I can remember when I was growing up. There%u2019s been at one lynching in the town, according to oral history.”