Montana
Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Independent City or Town
- Metro Area
- Politics c. 1860?
- Unions, Organized Labor?
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Surely
- 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1860 | ||||||||
| 1870 | ||||||||
| 1880 | ||||||||
| 1890 | ||||||||
| 1900 | ||||||||
| 1910 | 4697 | 81 | ||||||
| 1920 | 7937 | 41 | ||||||
| 1930 | ||||||||
| 1940 | 7313 | 41 | ||||||
| 1950 | 9243 | 24 | ||||||
| 1960 | 9665 | 4 | ||||||
| 1970 | ||||||||
| 1980 | ||||||||
| 1990 | ||||||||
| 2000 | 8487 | 10 | ||||||
| 2010 | ||||||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
“In Miles City, my great grandmother remembers the
‘black’ section of town… Grandma was born in 1908 in
Miles City. She remembers playing with a black girl as
a child and said that everyone in town got along very
well. The turning point seems to have been
somewhere around 1917 or 1918. She remembers
being in about fourth or fifth grade when the sheriff
was killed trying to arrest a black man in town… Most
of the black families in town seemed to have departed
shortly thereafter. There were still a few who
remained, as she also remembers a man her mother
hired to help care for her father in the 30’s. Most were
connected as help for some family in town, and stayed
to work for them.”
-posted to the web 2003