New York
Basic Information
- Type of Place
- CDP, Unincorporated Borough, or MCD
- Metro Area
- Long Island
- Politics c. 1860?
- Don’t Know
- Unions, Organized Labor?
- Don’t Know
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Possible
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- 1953
- Still Sundown?
- Don’t Know
Census Information
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Method of Exclusion
- Threat of Violence
- Private Bad Behavior
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
- Jewish
Comments
From Martha Biondi, To Stand and Fight (Cambridge:
Harvard University Press, 2003):
“In 1953, the home being built by Clarence
Wilson … in Copaigue, LI, was twice set on fire. ‘The
Ku Klux Klan No. 39’ sent him and the Amityville
NAACP threatening letters warning blacks to stay out
of the area.” One neighbor “reportedly boasted that
‘they had spent a lot of money to keep Jews out and
they weren’t going to let Negroes move in.'” A CORE
survey found 15 neighbors opposed to the Wilson, 11
not opposed, and 5 who refused to talk. He had to
sell at a loss because he could not get fire insurance.”
(p. 237)