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?
- Don’t Know
- 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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| 1960 | 2239 | 1 | ||||||
| 1970 | 2937 | |||||||
| 1980 | 2979 | |||||||
| 1990 | 3164 | |||||||
| 2000 | 3933 | 3823 | 46 | |||||
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| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
Email 1/2008
I looked at the 1940 Illinois census info available online, but did
not see stats for Dupo – it was too small. I found a 1930 census list
for Dupo online – with the names of everyone who lived in town, but no
racial data. The family names were mostly German, with a few Irish,
French, and Anglo-Saxon names in the mix.
When I was going to high school in Dupo, there were a handful of
African American students, but they were all from East Carondolet
(which was “only” 92.5% white as of 2000) or North Dupo (counted as
part of Cahokia in the 2000 census), not Dupo proper. I was aware of
one black family that moved into a rural Dupo home (on Old Cement
Hollow Road – I can visualize where it is, but I do not know the
address) in the 1980s, only to be run out by a cross burning. It
seems likely that Dupo could be added to your list of sundown towns.
If I have time to do some more digging, I’ll be sure to pass along
whatever I find. Thanks for your insightful work.
In case you want to add it to your database, I did a quick census
search on Dupo, IL:
2000
total population 3,933
97.2% white
1.2% black
1990
total population 3,164
99.3% white
.2% black
1980
total population 2,979
all white (4 of Hispanic origin)
1970
total population 2,842
all white
1960
total population 2,937
[I saw nativity but not racial stats.]
1950
total population 2,239
99.3% white
1 “Negro”