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?
- Sign?
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
Census Information
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Method of Exclusion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
email 11/2007:
The town of Chincoteague on the Eastern Shore of Virginia was a notorious “sun down” town. I remember stories my grandfather told me when I was growing up of a grocery delivery driver having to hide under the dashboard of the truck and being driven off the island by his boss because it had gotten dark. The only way on or off Chincoteague was by a drawbridge, and the story was that if a black man was caught on the island after dark, they would raise the bridge. Black people living on the island are still few and far between, compared to the rest of the Shore. For a long time, the public beach on Assateague Island (which is connected to Chincoteague) was off limits to blacks. On the Shore as a rule, the farther south you go, the larger the percentage of black people. Cape Charles, the town where I went to school, was not a sundown town, but blacks were segregated to the two streets on the “back” of town, called Jersey. I hope this information will help you, and I intend to read your book as soon as I can. I also apologize for the reception the governor of Indiana gave you. My wife attended your speech at IUPUI, and was greatly impressed. Keep rattling the cages.