Illinois
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?
- Probable
- Was there an ordinance?
- Perhaps, Some Oral Evidence
- Sign?
- Perhaps, Some Oral Evidence
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Probably Not, Although Still Very Few Black People
Census Information
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| 1990 | 1369 | |||||||
| 2000 | 1287 | 1274 | 1 | |||||
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Method of Exclusion
- Other
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
A student in Bethany reported their teacher(s) using racial slurts. (Taken in 2005 from a student during the 1950s)
Having grown up in Bethany, I had often heard many of the locals mention Bethany being a ‘no Negro town’. I don’t remember the name of the persons who mentioned this, but I believe it was in 1956. (According to a local resident in 2005)