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?
- 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 | |
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1860 | ||||||||
1870 | ||||||||
1880 | ||||||||
1890 | ||||||||
1900 | ||||||||
1910 | 4886 | 15 | ||||||
1920 | ||||||||
1930 | ||||||||
1940 | 5544 | 6 | ||||||
1950 | 6608 | 8 | ||||||
1960 | 7675 | 7 | ||||||
1970 | 8244 | 4 | ||||||
1980 | 8251 | 20 | ||||||
1990 | ||||||||
2000 | 8389 | 79 | 46 | 29 | ||||
2010 | 9074 | 106 | 37 | 43 | ||||
2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
“With respect to Charlotte, MI one of the street names right by my house was Mikesell (sp?), which I was told
is the name of a grandmaster wizard or whatever they call officials in the KKK from Charlotte.
I do not know if there are actual ordinances on the books about race, but lore in the town was that the
sun had never set over a black person in Charlotte (although there was an adopted black child in town).
This was confirmed by the black community in Lansing that Charlotte was not a place to visit or to be after
dark. When Lansing basketball teams played at Charlotte high school in the mid 80s people in the stands made posters that said ‘Go home spooks’ and no one said anything. The only minorities in the
community were 3 Asian American families, two Hispanic American families and one Jewish family. At one time a Vietnamese family tried to settle in Charlotte but I think they were encouraged to leave
(they were there less than one year). I don’t know that people even were aware that the Hispanic family weren’t white they had fair skin and spoke English
fluently. I didn’t realize they were ‘different’ until I was in high school and realized they had Spanish last
names. The Asian families said they had been subject to harassment but not violence.”