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?
- Perhaps, Some Oral Evidence
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Probably
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1860 | ||||||||
| 1870 | ||||||||
| 1880 | ||||||||
| 1890 | ||||||||
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| 1910 | ||||||||
| 1920 | ||||||||
| 1930 | 2,001 | 0 | ||||||
| 1940 | ||||||||
| 1950 | 1,708 | 0 | ||||||
| 1960 | 1,663 | 0 | ||||||
| 1970 | ||||||||
| 1980 | ||||||||
| 1990 | 1,316 | 0 | ||||||
| 2000 | 1,325 | 0 | ||||||
| 2010 | ||||||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
“left Denver in 1952… During the trip I met a pleasant
lady and we talked and laughed until we got to the
Oklahoma border. The bus driver stopped the bus and
the driver said, ‘We are entering Oklahoma, all colored
to the back of the bus.’ My friend got up to move back
and I told her I’d go with her. She said, ‘No, honey you
will just make trouble for me, stay right where you
are.’ I didn’t understand – it was as if I had entered a
foreign country.
“We finally approached Barnsdall, Oklahoma, and on
the outskirts of town, I saw a big white sign with black
letters that said, ‘Nigger, don’t let the sun set on your
black ass in this town.’ … I asked Mom if this was the
way it was down here and she told me yes, and not to
ask questions about it.
“I stayed in Barnsdall three months. I never saw a
black, ever. When they were talked about, it was
always ‘those niggers’ or ‘those uppity niggers.'”
-posted to the web, 2006