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 Not, Although Still Very Few Black People
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1860 | ||||||||
| 1870 | ||||||||
| 1880 | ||||||||
| 1890 | ||||||||
| 1900 | ||||||||
| 1910 | ||||||||
| 1920 | 3135 | 0 | ||||||
| 1930 | 4841 | 8 | ||||||
| 1940 | 4834 | 6 | ||||||
| 1950 | 4435 | 4 | ||||||
| 1960 | 4052 | 0 | ||||||
| 1970 | ||||||||
| 1980 | ||||||||
| 1990 | 3389 | |||||||
| 2000 | 3115 | 6 | 11 | 11 | ||||
| 2010 | ||||||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Threat of Violence
- Other
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
“Threat Against W. Va. Families Is Laid To Klan,” Pittsburgh Courier, 10/27/1923.
“A dozen or more families were Tuesday night preparing to leave the mill town of Follansbee, WV, … because of a warning painted on a tin mill fence facing the quarter Monday night.
The message was painted shortly after two fiery crosses were burned on the hill overflowing the colored section. Officials of the town credit the Ku Klux Klan with the warning.
Race citizens for years were excluded from the town, but recently many colored families were brought in by industrial concerns.
The families announced their intention of leaving.”
As of 2000, the African American population of Follansbee is .2%. American Indian/Alaskan natives and Asians each make up .4% of the population.