Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Suburb
- 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?
- Surely Not
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1950 | 33744 | |||||||
| 1960 | 62837 | 79 | 94 | |||||
| 1970 | 93929 | 445 | 720 | |||||
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| 2000 | 116510 | 104018 | 4544 | 6079 | 146 | 1579 | ||
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| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Unknown
Comments
Email 4/2008
Amherst is definitely NOT a sundown town. Although there is not a large black population, it’s still Buffalo’s most racially and culturally integrated suburban community.
The majority of African-Americans in Amherst live in the Willowridge, Eggertsville, Snyder and Maple-North Forest neighborhoods; all middle-class to high income areas. There is some hostility towards the presence of a small apartment complex in the Eggertsville neighborhood (Allenhurst Apartments), where most tenants are moderate-income African-Americans.
James Hecht, Because It Is Right (Boston: Little, Brown, 1970), 23:
Relates the story of Rev. Paul Smith, who bought a house, December, 1963. Whites organized a meeting against his move, but he moved in anyway.
Amherst Resident:
%u201CI live in East Amherst, NY, a small suburb of Buffalo. Amherst, right next door, has been voted “The Safest City in America” for several years running but the org that is responsible for this escapes me right now. Anyway, it is rumored that the Amherst Police “pull over” any young, non white motorists that drive through. I’ve been told by black guys that I work with that they will drive far out of their way to avoid going through Amherst.