Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Independent City or Town
- Metro Area
- Politics c. 1860?
- Strongly Democratic
- 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?
- Don’t Know
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1900 | 1,1080 | 33 | ||||||
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| 2000 | 1,025 | 4 | ||||||
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Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
email 2/2008
I can remember in the early 1960’s seeing police run Blacks out of town that were fishing on the Allegheney river in area of Oak St. 1st Black to live and work in town was Daphne Chase a teacher at Warren HS in mid 60’s. There was also a choir director at one of large churches in Warren in late 60’s. Have never been able to learn why Warren was like this when history shows that Underground railroad was all through this area. Also towns 10- 20 miles away had Black residents. There are several bi-racial children living in Warren at present.
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An African American women familiar with the history of Warren recounts a story of blacks being brought in as strikebreakers in the 1960s during a lumber strike. The blacks were then expelled.
An email from a former resident of Warren: “When I was in grade school, the kids in my class came to school one day, telling about how a black family had tried to move into a house located on the hill, in what was known as the Italian neighborhood, and the family had been run out.” She, in a later email, added, “We had one black teacher at the HS when I was there, but she was not allowed to move to town until 1975.”
An email from a longtime resident: “I was born in 1954inWarren,Pa. I grew up here and attended school here. There were stories of the Klan marches as my neighbor had a relative that was a part of the Klan. There were no Blacks in Warren until Miss Chase came. As a child in Warren,to see a black person was rare. I remember asking my Mother why and she referred to the fact that they had to be out of town by sundown.”