Missouri
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?
- Possible
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Probably Not, Although Still Very Few Black People
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1930 | 2250 | 0 | ||||||
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| 1950 | 3611 | 0 | ||||||
| 1960 | 3870 | 0 | ||||||
| 1970 | 4363 | 0 | ||||||
| 1980 | ||||||||
| 1990 | 4486 | 1 | ||||||
| 2000 | 4854 | 36 | ||||||
| 2010 | ||||||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
Melvin Tolson, played in the film The Great Debaters by Denzel Washington, wrote the poem “FRITZ RICKMAN” about the racial cleansing that left Salem a sundown town.