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?
- Perhaps, Some Oral Evidence
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Surely Not
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1860 | ||||||||
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| 1900 | ||||||||
| 1910 | 8634 | 83 | ||||||
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| 1930 | ||||||||
| 1940 | 13705 | 71 | ||||||
| 1950 | ||||||||
| 1960 | 15302 | |||||||
| 1970 | 14956 | 23 | ||||||
| 1980 | 15168 | 12 | ||||||
| 1990 | 14754 | 32 | ||||||
| 2000 | 16620 | 79 | ||||||
| 2010 | 16422 | 105 | ||||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
One former resident of Elwood who saw the sundown signs personally in the 1940s claimed, “if you were to start at Frankfort on Indiana State Road 28 and go east, you hit Tipton, Elwood, and Alexandria, all of them had the sundown signs at the city limits” (March 2004).
Another individual also remembers seeing signs along State Highway 28 and mentioned Frankfort, Tipton, Elwood, and Alexandria once again. (February 2004)
An email from 2004 stated that Frankfort allowed whites to pay a premium in order to live in all-white neighborhoods and keep blacks from moving in.
A former resident of Frankfort shared her story of racial slurs thrown at her during her experience within the school system. January 2013