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?
- Don’t Know
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1960 | 1,331 | 84 | ||||||
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| 2000 | 373 | 0 | ||||||
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| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
Chicago Defender (National Edition) (1921-1967);Jan. 25, 1936; ProQuest Historical Newspapers The Chicago Defender pg.3
First 1936 Mob Strikes in West VA.
Keystone, W. Va., Jan. 24 — This pivot city here in this borderline state leaped into the limelight recently when the first lynching of record this year was chalked up against it following the discovery of the body of L. K. Kent, in his parked automobile on the outskirts of town.
Kent, well known and will liked in this community, was found in a sitting posture in his automobile, his face and limbs burned beyond recognition. Police traced his identity through the license plates on his car….
Friends of the Kents scouted the report which said the young man was seen leaving here, with several white women in his automobile, headed toward Davy, 19 miles from Keystone. It was also rumored among certain whites that he had been warned to stay away from Davy, an all-white town….