Tennessee
Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Independent City or Town
- Metro Area
- Politics c. 1860?
- Don’t Know
- Unions, Organized Labor?
- Don’t Know
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Possible
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Perhaps, Some Oral Evidence
- 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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| 1930 | 3738 | 17 | ||||||
| 1940 | 4364 | 22 | ||||||
| 1950 | 6924 | 20 | ||||||
| 1960 | 7805 | 11 | ||||||
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| 1990 | 21744 | |||||||
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| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
One TN resident claims: “consider that the Ku Klux Klan still holds regular meetings in Cookeville Tennessee, on Tabor Loop. That town still has signs at each end saying “nigger don’t let the sun set on you in this town.”
This is not true, according to a librarian in Cookeville. Cookeville has had blacks at least in the 1950s and on. She did suggest Monterey, very white small town in Putnam County near Cookeville, she has never heard a sundown story about it but suspects it cannot be so white by accident, and Gainesboro, in Jackson County, ditto.
A professor at TN Tech says Tabor Loop is in the west part of the county, near Baxter, which is probably sundown.