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James W. Loewen (1942-2021)

We mourn the loss of our friend and colleague and remain committed to the work he began.

Garden Grove

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

The available census data from 1860 to the present
Total White Black Asian Native Hispanic Other BHshld
1860
1870
1880
1890
1900
1910
1920
1930
1940
1950 3772 3
1960 84238 34
1970 122524 162
1980 123307 822
1990
2000 192345 64400 4923 64910 1361 77247 52410
2010
2020

Method of Exclusion

  • Violence Towards NewcomersRealtors

Main Ethnic Group(s)

  • Unknown

Group(s) Excluded

  • Black
  • Other

Comments

In 1954, Dr. Sammy Lee, a world-famous
Korean-American athlete and two-time Olympic gold
medal winner, was twice unable to purchase a home in
Garden Grove, succeeding only after the international
media condemned the incident.” When Joshua White
“finally rented an apartment, his windows were shot
out shortly afterward. An African-American woman,
the first African-American schoolteacher in the
Magnolia School District, was forced to quit one year
later because she could not obtain housing.”