Arkansas
Basic Information
- Type of Place
- County
- Metro Area
- Politics c. 1860?
- Don’t Know
- Unions, Organized Labor?
- Don’t Know
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Surely
- Was there an ordinance?
- Perhaps, Some Oral Evidence
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Probably
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1860 | ||||||||
| 1870 | ||||||||
| 1880 | ||||||||
| 1890 | 12,200 | 43 | ||||||
| 1900 | 15,886 | 9 | ||||||
| 1910 | 23,690 | 10 | ||||||
| 1920 | 22,276 | 3 | ||||||
| 1930 | 27,278 | 10 | ||||||
| 1940 | 28,386 | 2 | ||||||
| 1950 | 26,674 | 1 | ||||||
| 1960 | 21,258 | 3 | ||||||
| 1970 | ||||||||
| 1980 | ||||||||
| 1990 | ||||||||
| 2000 | 17,609 | 33 | 6 | |||||
| 2010 | ||||||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
Clay County’s 33 black residents occupy 6
households, with only 1 black householder.
“Clay County to the north is a real case [of racial
cleansing]… the last and only black died in about
1950. To this day it is a very racist county.”
“My maternal grandfather told me that Clay
County passed a law saying that any black found after
sundown could be put to death.”