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?
- Surely
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Don’t Know
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1860 | ||||||||
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| 1930 | 2435 | 0 | ||||||
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| 1950 | 3840 | 1 | ||||||
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| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
In 1940, a citizen’s organization proudly announced
that Comanche was “the home of the purest Anglo-
Saxon population of any county in the United States.”
“I wanted to be a cheerleader because they’re the
popular people. Me and my brother are the only two
black people in school. My brother hangs out with the
Mexican kids. I do things by myself a lot. I feel like I
have to try harder to fit in. That’s why I keep my hair
braided and long, to look like the other girls. . . The
other girls, they go out to get their hair done %u2014 but I
can’t go, because the hairstylists here can’t do my
hair. I wish there were more black kids. I’d have
someone to relate to in history class, when they’re
talking about the slaves or Martin Luther King. If I
were at a school with black kids, I could go to their
house, they could come to mine. With a bunch of kids’
parents here, the white girls can’t date Hispanics or
blacks. It bothers me. Some people aren’t like that. I
went to the prom with a white boy whose parents
didn’t mind. But sometimes kids in our school will be
having a party, and if I find out and say why wasn’t I
invited, you could tell that they really want to invite
me but they can’t.” “But my mom takes me places,
and we go do stuff. My mom tells me it’s just life, you
just have to deal with it.”
-Talila Harlmon, interviewed in “Alone in the Crowd”,
NY Times Magazine, 16 July 2000