Tennessee
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?
- Probable
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Perhaps, Some Oral Evidence
- Year of Greatest Interest
- 1910
- Still Sundown?
- Probably
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1950 | 1195 | 1 | ||||||
| 1960 | 1590 | 2 | ||||||
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| 1990 | 3641 | 0 | ||||||
| 2000 | 3885 | 6 | ||||||
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| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
Lafayette, TN is in Macon County, where blacks were run out around 1910. The expulsion of blacks from Lafayette, TN is documented in Harold Blankenship’s History of Macon County, Tennessee (1986). Blacks were run out of the town in the aftermath of the John [a.k.a. Dave] Winston lynching in that city.