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James W. Loewen (1942-2021)

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Caney

Kansas

Basic Information

Type of Place
Independent City or Town
Metro Area
Politics c. 1860?
Don’t Know
Unions, Organized Labor?
Don’t Know

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

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 2794 0
1940
1950 2876 1
1960 2682 0
1970
1980
1990 2062 0
2000 2092 4
2010
2020

Method of Exclusion

  • Unknown

Main Ethnic Group(s)

  • Unknown

Group(s) Excluded

  • Black

Comments

“I am a graduate student in American Studies at Emory University and I too am studying ‘sundown towns’ as a part of my research on racial violence and resistance in Kansas during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries…Towns that I have identified include: Yates Center, LeRoy, Pamona, Ellinwood, Hoisington, Chicopee (and a number of other mining towns in the southeast), Home City, Scammon, and Caney.”