Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Suburb
- Metro Area
- Los Angeles/San Diego
- Politics c. 1860?
- Unions, Organized Labor?
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?
- Don’t Know
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1930 | 5216 | 9 | ||||||
| 1940 | 9122 | 17 | ||||||
| 1950 | 41005 | 56 | ||||||
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| 2000 | 53054 | 24180 | 601 | 24091 | 132 | 5629 | 2209 | |
| 2010 | ||||||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Threat of Violence
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
Email 1/2008 cameronp@napanet.net
I was raised in Arcadia during the 1960s. My father was a white physician and my mother was a realtor. Arcadia had covenants prohibiting blacks and Asians from purchasing property and prohibiting whites from renting to minorities, according to my mom. A Chinese-American physician (a urologist) moved his family to Arcadia in the early 1960s against considerable local opposition. Somewhat ironic, in that Arcadia is now largely populated by affluent immigrants from Hong Kong.
In 1967, a black physician and his family attempted to live in Arcadia. Crosses were burned on their lawn,
and the family left.
Most of Arcadia’s black population in 1950 were men, indicating either live-in gardeners or an institution of
some sort.