California
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?
- Surely Not
Census Information
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| 2000 | 29506 | 7962 | 6796 | 657 | 246 | 17346 | 10248 | |
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Method of Exclusion
- Realtors
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
Email 1/2008
East Palo Alto has more blacks than whites, and has for some time. Most of the city elected officials are black, including the mayor.
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Raymond Jones, a black Navy Petty Officer, sued a real estate firm in East Palo Alto for refusing to sell
him a house. Jones stated “I want a new house, the kind I can afford to buy. They refused my money because I am a Negro.”