Arkansas
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?
- Probable
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Perhaps, Some Oral Evidence
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Probably
Census Information
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| 2000 | 1,329 | 1,294 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 26 | 8 | |
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Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
“Until at least a few years ago they had a welcome sign at the city limits that read ‘Welcome to Dover:
Don’t Let the Sun Set on Your Black Ass’.”
-Arkansas State University professor
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3/2008 email
I heard some variation of the sentence, ‘Blacks shouldn%u2019t go to Dover and definitely not after dark’ more times than I can remember when I was growing up. There%u2019s been at one lynching in the town, according to oral history.”