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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.

New Ulm

Minnesota

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?
Possible
Was there an ordinance?
Don't Know
Sign?
Don’t Know
Year of Greatest Interest
Still Sundown?
Probably Not, Although Still Very Few Black People

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 13132 13028 8 3
2000 13594 13336 15 4
2010
2020

Method of Exclusion

Main Ethnic Group(s)

  • German Protestant

Group(s) Excluded

  • Black

Comments

A former resident emailed us: ” I was born there in 1961 and lived there until I went to college. The town sounded a siren twice a day during all of that time. There was noon whistle and a siren sounded one hour before sundown. The kids in my neighborhood would always say, “it’s time for the niggers to go home”. The irony of that statement is that we only had one African
American in town and she was adopted by a white family. About the time I entered high school a Vietnamese family moved to New Ulm and they ran a restaurant there. I used to play tennis with them and they often told me how hard it was to live there.”