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James W. Loewen (1942-2021)

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Brookline

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

The available census data from 1860 to the present
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.