Pennsylvania
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?
- Sign?
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Don’t Know
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1940 | 1,592 | 0 | ||||||
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| 2000 | 6,606 | 1,812 | ||||||
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| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
In 1963, the all-white village of Delmar within Folcroft had a riot when a black family attempted to move in.
“…there had as yet been no national headlines about Folcroft, Pennsylvania, where white neighbors rioted and nearly destroyed the home of Negro couple.” — Lois Mark Stalvey, THE EDUCATION OF A WASP, p. 42 (NY: Wm. Morrow, 1970).
Folcroft, PA, A black family moved out in 1965 after husband suffered nervous breakdown after two years of insults, vandalism of car and house, etc–Hecht, Because It Is Right, pg. 205.