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James W. Loewen (1942-2021)

We mourn the loss of our friend and colleague and remain committed to the work he began.

Blair

Oklahoma

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

Census Information

The available census data from 1860 to the present
Total White Black Asian Native Hispanic Other BHshld
1860
1870
1880
1890
1900
1910
1920
1930
1940
1950
1960
1970
1980
1990
2000 894 0
2010
2020

Method of Exclusion

Main Ethnic Group(s)

Group(s) Excluded

Comments

Resident from nearby Town-2008
“For what it’s worth. I was raised in Altus, Oklahoma (seat of Jackson county)graduated Altus HS Class of 1994. There was a town about five miles away called Blair, Oklahoma (population was about 600, 2nd largest town in Jackson county)- the Black population was and remains zero.
Growing up, I always heard that Blacks were not welcome there, and that the last Black person who had moved there had been hanged.”