Massachusetts
Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Suburb
- Metro Area
- Politics c. 1860?
- Unions, Organized Labor?
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Probable
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Probably Not, Although Still Very Few Black People
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1860 | ||||||||
| 1870 | ||||||||
| 1880 | ||||||||
| 1890 | ||||||||
| 1900 | 19,935 | 161 | ||||||
| 1910 | 27,792 | 221 | ||||||
| 1920 | 37,748 | 349 | ||||||
| 1930 | ||||||||
| 1940 | 279 | |||||||
| 1950 | ||||||||
| 1960 | ||||||||
| 1970 | ||||||||
| 1980 | ||||||||
| 1990 | 54,718 | 1,696 | ||||||
| 2000 | ||||||||
| 2010 | ||||||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Irish
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
While Brookline appears to have had a black
population, they were overwhelmingly female, and
there are almost no children, indicating that the black
population was actually live-in domestic workers.