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 Not, Although Still Very Few Black People
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1970 | 1,043 | 3 | ||||||
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| 1990 | 1,562 | 1 | ||||||
| 2000 | 1,627 | 1,565 | 1 | 4 | 43 | 15 | 0 | |
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Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
email 2008
In the 1960s before Interstate 40 was built I frequently traveled through Mulberry, Arkansas on highway 64. It probably had a population of fewer than 1000 at that time. On the door of a garage was painted (smeared) a sign that read ‘No niggers in this town’.
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Mulberry had a sundown sign until the early 1980s.
Email message: 1/8/08
Mulberry’s sundown period dates to the early twentieth century, when a black man from out of the area shot and killed a city marshal on Main Street. Apparently, fearing retaliation, the town’s small black community fled en masse. The author wasn’t able to find any “official” sundown declaration, and though she had frequently heard that the town had a sign warning African Americans to stay away, she hasn’t
been able to prove that or find anyone who knows more about it.