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?
- 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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| 1960 | 1421 | 0 | ||||||
| 1970 | 2734 | 0 | ||||||
| 1980 | 2573 | 0 | ||||||
| 1990 | 2190 | 1 | ||||||
| 2000 | 2422 | 4 | ||||||
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| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
“Most Residents of Fox Cities Would Accept Negroes in Area.”
“Just over two-thirds of Fox Cities Residents express willingness to admit Negroes to employment here, and a majority indicate they would accept them as neighbors and social friends, a recent survey shows. But markedly fewer residents %u2014 only 15% %u2014 would admit them into their families by marriage.” Done by Lawrence U. students. 6.3% would allow Negroes into the U.S. “only as visitors” or would “exclude entirely.” That figure was higher (but <10%) for Puerto ricans, Mexicans, and Chinese, [reflecting that Negroes already are citizens]. 17% would not respond to the scale re blacks, while only 8% refused to respond re English. 52.5% of respondents would accept Negroes "in their clubs as friends." The survey "included the urban portions of all the cities, towns, and villages in the Fox Cities, extending from Neenah to Kaukauna," and "showed that Appleton is considerably more willing to accept minorities than areas outside of Appleton." [That implies that Neenah, Menasha, Kimberly, Little Chute, Combined Locks, and Kaukauna may also have been sundown towns.] "However, more Appleton people refused to answer the question." [Tom Richards, "Appleton Needs Negroes, Civil Rights Panelists Agree," Appleton Post-Crescent, 4/22/1964.]