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?
- Possible
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Surely Not
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1860 | ||||||||
| 1870 | 4666 | 29 | ||||||
| 1880 | 7404 | 69 | ||||||
| 1890 | 9069 | 44 | ||||||
| 1900 | 18684 | 33 | ||||||
| 1910 | 25236 | 45 | ||||||
| 1920 | 31017 | 32 | ||||||
| 1930 | 37415 | 21 | ||||||
| 1940 | 46235 | 10 | ||||||
| 1950 | 52735 | 17 | ||||||
| 1960 | 62888 | 18 | ||||||
| 1970 | 87809 | 65 | ||||||
| 1980 | 87899 | 221 | ||||||
| 1990 | 96466 | 453 | 127 | |||||
| 2000 | 102,313 | 1,407 | 433 | |||||
| 2010 | 104,057 | 4,952 | ||||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
Coach Gene “Ronzani had shown some courage in the pre-season by signing African Americans Jim Thomas and Jim Clark to Packer contracts, but he took the easy way out” and cut them. “After watching his team get its collective butt whipped on several occasions and attributing their poor showing to the glaring fact that the Packers were one of the two teams in the 13-team league without a player of African ancestry (the other being the Washington Redskins), the coach picked Bob Mann” off waivers just before the home finale in 1950.
Bob Mann played 1950-54.
[Larry Names, The History of the Green Bay Packers, IV, The Shameful Years (Wautoma: Angel Press, 1995), 44.]
Green Bay had a near draft riot, mostly of Belgians, around Nov. 10, 1862. Belgians and Irish opposed the draft, so two companies of troops were sent to Ft. Howard.
[Deborah Martin, History of Brown County, WI (Chicago: S. J. Clarke, 1913), 205 and 213.]
According to a local librarian:
In about 1970, a black woman in a Green Bay supermarket gets asked by a well-meaning white woman, “Oh, and which Packer wife are you?” She happened not to be, but replied, “I’m Mrs. Bart Starr!”
1969-70, Green Bay had 13 blacks.
[Ploski and Kaiser, ed., The Negro Almanac (Bellwether, 19), 628.]