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?
- Surely
- Was there an ordinance?
- Yes, Strong Oral Tradition
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Probably
Census Information
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| 1990 | 1616 | |||||||
| 2000 | 1532 | 1512 | 1 | |||||
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Method of Exclusion
- Police or Other Official Action
- Zoning
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
“There was a black family whose car broke down, and they couldn’t stay in the hotels or motels in Greenup. So they let them stay at the fairgrounds” at the edge of town. Probably in one of those little buildings where they exhibit pies and things in the summer. It had a coal stove. This was winter. “They brought food to them, because they couldn’t eat in a restaurant in Greenup back then.” “They stayed there 2 or 3 days, while their car was repaired.” My father-in-law was asked to give the father a haircut, which he did. “He went out to the fairgrounds, but he had to do it at night, because his other customers wouldn’t have ever walked into his shop again if they knew he was using scissors and comb that had touched a black man’s head. (Local worker claimed this incident happened between 1945-1965)
The fairgrounds were deliberately left out of Greenup because blacks stayed there. Black people coming to the fair or working in the fair could stay at the fairgrounds but not in Greenup. There was a sign outside the hotel, no blacks allowed. “We grew up knowing that it was against the law” for blacks to spend the night in Greenup. (Local resident)