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?
- Probable
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Probably
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1950 | 1064 | 0 | ||||||
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| 1990 | 421 | 0 | ||||||
| 2000 | 427 | 0 | ||||||
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| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
“Tonawanda, the first stop outside of Buffalo, was like Ducktown, TN, in that it allowed no Negro to live there.”
[James A. Atkins, The Age of Jim Crow (NY: Vantage, 1964),
An older man told of going in to Ducktown with a black doing a job, and whties gathered about and yelled, “Get him out!”
A local resident testifies:
“I went to the Ducktown Museum on Saturday and asked about black miners and was told that there were none. There were some black workers who came through on the railroad, but none who worked for the copper mines. Many of the miners initially came from Georgia (easier access to the mines) with others later coming in from Eastern Europe with the turn of the century migration flow.”