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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.

Elfers

Florida

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

The available census data from 1860 to the present
Total White Black Asian Native Hispanic Other BHshld
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Method of Exclusion

Main Ethnic Group(s)

Group(s) Excluded

  • Black

Comments

Email 1/11/08
After whites in West Pasco County “massacred African American sawmill workers on the Cotee River, a sign hung near the entrance to Elfers as late as the early 1920s that read: ‘Nigger, don’t let the sun set on you here.’”
Ralph Bellwood, Tales of West Pasco (LISA Printing, 1973) 14-16. Also see Ortiz, 71.