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?
- Surely
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Perhaps, Some Oral Evidence
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Probably
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1950 | 1,952 | 0 | ||||||
| 1960 | 2,989 | 0 | ||||||
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| 1990 | 6,321 | 0 | ||||||
| 2000 | 7.139 | 13 | ||||||
| 2010 | 8,000 | |||||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Private Bad Behavior
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
Asked why there are no blacks in Arab, a resident (who has lived in Arab since 1927) says, “It’s always
been that way. There was one in the Roof community;
they called him Rabbit, Nigger Rabbit. Everybody liked
him.” He lived there until he died. “In the ’40s, maybe
50s, if they came shopping or something like that,
they’d run ’em out of town.” It was one guy, really, a
chiropractor. It’d be different now, “That happened a
long time ago, and it’s still in their [blacks’] minds.”
“Until the early 90’s there was a sign as you entered
Arab, Alabama that read ‘Nigger, Don’t Let The Sun Set
On Your Black Ass in Arab, Alabama.'”
-posted to the web 2002
7/2007
My parents recently moved to Arab after living in Huntsville for several years. I live in New York, but I am shocked everytime I visit them in Arab. They have a Wal-Mart and there is not a single African-American person shopping or working. My sister’s friends won’t even visit her because it is just known that “black people don’t go to Arab”. If I bring it up, my mom says that a few have moved to Arab and it is becoming more friendly. Right.
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