Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Metro Area
- Politics c. 1860?
- Unions, Organized Labor?
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Was there an ordinance?
- Sign?
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
Census Information
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Method of Exclusion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
Comments
According to Elmer R. Rusco, in his article “African Americans in Nevada, 1860s-1920s,” in Sucheng Chan, et al., eds., Peoples of Color in the American West (Lexington, MA, D. C. Heath, 1994):The total pop. of Nevada declined 24% in the 1880s because the Comstock Laws played out. Blacks declined more. Rising white hostility. Slurs used in newspapers. “Blacks were excluded from some NV communities at various times during the twentieth century and were forced out of other communities. Evidently this development, for which there is no known nineteenth-century precedent (although there was similar treatment of the Chinese) reflected a rising WASP ethnocentrism…” (p. 325-6)
Elmer R. Rusco also wrote in _”Good Time Coming?” Black Nevadans in the 19th Century_ (Westport: Greenwood, 1975):
“It is not known how widespread the policy of forcing blacks out of Nevada cities was, but in 1914 a newspaper in eastern Nevada reported that ‘all along the South Pacific Rail Road the Nevada towns are making war upon unemployed negroes…” KKK grew in ’20s. “Blacks were excluded from some Nevada communities at various times during the 20th century and were forced out of other communities.” Rawhide, NV, newspaper bragged in 1908 that “Dagoes” from Southern Europe and blacks “have been kindly but friendly [sic] informed to move on…”
Not in the 19th century “(although there was similar treatment of the Chinese).” (p. 207-209)
In 1880, Chinese were 8.7% of NV pop. (See Loren B. Chan, “The Chinese in Nevada,” in Arif Dirlik, ed., Chinese on the American Frontier (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001), 105).