Quincy

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?

Possible

Was there an ordinance?

Sign?

Year of Greatest Interest

Census Information

The available census data from 1860 to the present

	Total	White	Black	Asian	Native	Hispanic	Other	BHshld
1860	6778	6772	6
1870	7442	7427	15
1880	10570	10479	91
1890	16723	16701	16
1900	23899	23845	27	27
1910	32642	32568	45	24	5
1920	47876	47808	27	40	1
1930	71983	71912	34	34	1
1940	75810	75765	17	28
1950	83835	83762	30
1960	87409	87234	51	87	13
1970	87966	87491	129
1980	84743	83419	203	740	128
1990	84985	77815	928	5577	177
2000	88025
2010	92271		5024
2020	101636	60500	7724	32312	986	5214	6210

Method of Exclusion

Main Ethnic Group(s)

Group(s) Excluded

• Black

Comments

Email from a longtime resident:
“I lived in Quincy, MA for 6 years (1953-1959), three in the neighborhood of Wollaston (a large area that encompasses some verty very wealthy folk and a blue collar neighborhood I lived in (Calumet off Vassall Sts.), and three 3 in Snug Harbor, a low-income project in Germantown. In both, I have no memory of ever seeing any African-Ameriucan children in either of the elementary schjools I attended (Francis W. Parker and Snug Harbor Elementary). Some time in Wollaston (1953-1956), my father, a jazz musician, had some of his musician friends over one night for some jamming. Most of the musicians involved were black. The next day, a delegation of neighbors (not very many, but I have no memory of this except from what my mother told me many years later) cam by to register their disapproval that my father had blacks in their neighborhood after dark. It’s entirely possible they or even one had spent the night. It never occured to me that Quincy may have been a sundown town, or that
perhaps some neighborhoods may have been.”