Indiana
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?
- Surely
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Surely Not
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1930 | 2009 | 38 | ||||||
| 1940 | 1865 | 13 | ||||||
| 1950 | 1944 | 20 | ||||||
| 1960 | 2701 | 21 | ||||||
| 1970 | 2719 | 25 | 5 | |||||
| 1980 | ||||||||
| 1990 | 2661 | 36 | ||||||
| 2000 | 2715 | 31 | 3 | 11 | ||||
| 2010 | 3122 | 22 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
According to Jack Temple Kirby, in Rural Worlds Lost [(Baton Rouge: U LA P, 1987), 235, n.7],
Harrison county, in southern Indiana, illustrates “middle western exclusionism in the twentieth century. Before WWII whites … prohibited blacks from living in town.” Kirby based those sentences on information from informal interviews with elderly citizens of the town back then.