Indiana
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?
- Always Biracial
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- 1903
- Still Sundown?
- Surely Not
Census Information
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| 2000 | 121582 | 13275 | ||||||
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| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Violent Expulsion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
Ralph E. Luker, in his book _The Social Gospel in Black and White_ relates that Evansville riot, 7/6/1903. Mob tried to get all 16 inmates of the jail, to lynch them all. 200 deputies and militia held them off, killed 10 mob members. The mob then attacked the black community, forced many of Evansville’s 8,000 blacks to flee to KY and IL. [This implies (a) that the militia and deputies did nothing to protect the black community, even though they were so numerous. (b) nearby towns offered no havens. (Chapel Hill: U. of NC Press, 1991, 222.)