Pennsylvania
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?
- Possible
- Was there an ordinance?
- Sign?
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Don’t Know
Census Information
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| 2000 | 3,940 | 10 | ||||||
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Method of Exclusion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
From a former staff member at Boyertown Area High School: “The person who told me about the law that stated that blacks had to leave town at sundown was the mayor of the town at the time…This would have been in 1988 or 1989. I am not sure whether or not it was still an active law or not, but he was aware that it had been on the books. There were very few blacks in the town and it has a reputation of not being very accepting of outsiders. The Klan had permission to hold a parade in the town. This was around 1990. It was also known that there was a cell of the Aryan Nation in Berks County, or quite near by.”