Alabama
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?
- Perhaps, Some Oral Evidence
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Surely Not
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1860 | ||||||||
| 1870 | ||||||||
| 1880 | 1,794 | |||||||
| 1890 | 1,033 | |||||||
| 1900 | 1,012 | |||||||
| 1910 | ||||||||
| 1920 | ||||||||
| 1930 | ||||||||
| 1940 | ||||||||
| 1950 | ||||||||
| 1960 | 10,002 | 3 | ||||||
| 1970 | ||||||||
| 1980 | ||||||||
| 1990 | 6,457 | 27 | ||||||
| 2000 | 6,364 | 5,657 | 517 | 15 | 86 | 73 | 19 | |
| 2010 | ||||||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
“I was born in Mobile in 1931, and being a
person of color, the family members were the source
of the talk. The sign read ‘Nigger, don’t be caught
here after the sun goes down,’ or something to that
effect.”
-resident of Mobile