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
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2000 | 21747 | 8705 | 10122 | 751 | 50 | 3153 | ||
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Method of Exclusion
- Threat of Violence
- Violence Towards Newcomers
- Reputation
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
Former Newark Black Resident about visting Hillside:
Fans overturned a school bus with the football team of Weequahic HS from Newark, 1968. “We knew it was all-white.” “Growing up in Newark, I wasn’t used to people calling me ‘nigger.'” This happened in the suburbs. The other team did it. “We were schooled not to retaliate.” Hillside never played at Newark. “They wouldn’t come.” “We ran through the building to get on the bus, and they started shaking the bus and the bus for the band and the cheerleaders.” “The police finally intervened after they rolled both buses over.” “They got us to the locker room.” “At that time, I became a real militant.”