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?
- Surely
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- 1906
- Still Sundown?
- Probably Not, Although Still Very Few Black People
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1860 | ||||||||
| 1870 | ||||||||
| 1880 | ||||||||
| 1890 | 3478 | 117 | ||||||
| 1900 | 5034 | |||||||
| 1910 | 5420 | 71 | ||||||
| 1920 | 5345 | 25 | ||||||
| 1930 | 5702 | 8 | ||||||
| 1940 | ||||||||
| 1950 | ||||||||
| 1960 | 6605 | 3 | ||||||
| 1970 | 8620 | 2 | ||||||
| 1980 | 9254 | 0 | ||||||
| 1990 | 9286 | 8 | ||||||
| 2000 | 8 | 2 | ||||||
| 2010 | ||||||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Violent Expulsion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
Greensburg is county seat of Decatur County, which had 156 blacks in 1850, 24 in 1860, 87 in 1870, 235 in 1880, 164 in 1890, 133 in 1900, 89 in 1910, 51 in 1920, just 10 in 1930, and 5 by 1950 and 3 females in 1960. In 2000, just three black households in the entire county, total of 12 blacks.
Greensburg had anti-black riot, 1906. “In Greensburg, IN, when a Negro half-wit was convicted for criminally assaulting his employer, a white mob did not succeed in taking him from the authorities, but they did destroy property, beat Negroes, and drive some from the city.” (Peter M. Bergman and Mort N. Bergman, The Chronological History of the Negro in America (NY: Mentor, 1969), 347.)
1906 Greensburg, Indiana, race riot, the first of many (see http://americanhistory.si.edu/timeline/07sitin.htm)
See also, James L. Harrison, A Brief History of the Growth and Development of Greensburg, Indiana, 1822 1968, A. M. thesis, Butler University, 1972.