Illinois
Basic Information
- Type of Place
- County
- Metro Area
- Politics c. 1860?
- Unions, Organized Labor?
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Surely
- Was there an ordinance?
- Sign?
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
Census Information
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| 2000 | 5084 | 2 | ||||||
| 2010 | 5032 | 7 | 2 | |||||
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Method of Exclusion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
Comments
According to one Calhoun County resident, “Many of the Western Cartridge workers came from Calhoun County, IL, a farming area on the MS forty miles north. Calhoun County is recorded in the 1940 census as ‘8,207 whites; no Negroes; no other races.’ This is not by accident. Calhoun people see to it that no Negroes settle there. This is East Alton on a bigger scale, an earthly paradise for those who hate Negro Americans. But can the rest of America remain indifferent to their ‘self-determination.’Along with the white boys from Calhoun County, and a hundred other counties of the South…”