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James W. Loewen (1942-2021)

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Beavercreek

Ohio

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?
Was there an ordinance?
Sign?
Year of Greatest Interest
Still Sundown?

Census Information

The available census data from 1860 to the present
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Method of Exclusion

Main Ethnic Group(s)

Group(s) Excluded

  • Black

Comments

A message from the SNCC email list on Aug. 18, 2014: “…John Crawford, a 22 year old black man, was shot by police and killed in a Walmart in Beavercreek, Ohio, a nearly all-white suburb of Dayton, Ohio. He reportedly was holding a toy gun, perhaps a bb gun, one sold at Walmart. A Walmart customer dialed 911 claiming that he was “waving around” a gun. Crawford was on the phone with the mother of his children, who said she heard him say “It%u2019s not real!” and immediately after that, heard shots…”