Illinois
Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Suburb
- Metro Area
- St. Louis
- Politics c. 1860?
- Unions, Organized Labor?
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Probable
- Was there an ordinance?
- Yes, Strong Oral Tradition
- Sign?
- Yes, Strong Oral Tradition
- 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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| 1950 | 2676 | 2 | ||||||
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| 1970 | 0 | |||||||
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| 1990 | 5524 | 7 | ||||||
| 2000 | 7805 | 8 | 1 | |||||
| 2010 | 9707 | 36 | 8 | |||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Realtors
- Reputation
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- German Catholic
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
According to residents, there was a 6 p.m. whistle to warn African Americans to leave town before dark. There also appears to have been a time where no real estate signs were posted when houses went on the market so that no African American families would try to buy a home in Columbia.