Illinois
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?
- Sign?
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Probably Not, Although Still Very Few Black People
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1990 | 10,857 | |||||||
| 2000 | 11,298 | 10,927 | 104 | |||||
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| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
“In Williamson County, IL, an interracial crowd of union coal miners stormed a mine being worked by strike-breakers and killed twenty of them. The community supported the miners’ action and refused to convict any of the participants. . . Within two years, Herrin and the rest of Williamson County backed one of the very strongest local Klan organizations in the country” (Taken from Klan historian in 1993)
The white workers ran off a couple of blacks at the local box factory, “white boys would get after ’em, want to fight ’em.” (According to a former worker, 2001)