Tennessee
Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Independent City or Town
- Metro Area
- Cumberlands
- 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?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Probably
Census Information
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| 1980 | 1295 | 5 | ||||||
| 1990 | 3731 | 2 | ||||||
| 2000 | 4173 | 7 | ||||||
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Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
email 3/2008 from nearby resident
Dunlap remains a sundown town, at least de facto. In the early 20th century, Dunlap was a center of coal mining activity and had a notable coke oven operation. The story as I’ve heard it from locals is that circa 1910, mine owners laid off numerous white workers and kept some lower-paid black workers; instead of blaming the bosses, the unemployed workers drove all blacks out of the county. As recently as the mid-1980s there was fresh graffiti with “KKK” and “Niggers Go Home” spraypainted on rocks in the area.