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?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Probably Not, Although Still Very Few Black People
Census Information
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| 1990 | 34,298 | 33,241 | 385 | 485 | 64 | |||
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Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
“I was raised here in Cedar Falls. In the early 1950s the
‘negroes’ lived in our neighbor city, Waterloo. As far as
I know, there was not one Black person living in Cedar
Falls in 1955, despite the fact that Waterloo and Cedar
Falls are essentially one big economic unit with
separate government and school systems. It was a
matter of frequent comment that a Black plumber
lived in an area between Waterloo and Cedar Falls –
not quite Waterloo but not quite Cedar Falls either –
and he was evidently respected to some degree… I
don’t remember ever knowing a Black person in high
school. Black students did not attend any dances or
other social events I occasioned… We moved from
Waterloo when I was 5 so my older sister would not
have to be bused to East High [the high school black
students attended].”
-former Waterloo and Cedar Falls resident, 2002