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?
- Perhaps, Some Oral Evidence
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Don’t Know
Census Information
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Method of Exclusion
- Threat of Violence
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
“I lived in Iowa Park, Texas, during the mid to late
80s. At the time no African American had attended
the high school. While living there an African American
family moved in and they were basically ran out of
town. The family received many death threats, because
of this they chose to move. On the edge of town was a
sign that said, N@%! don’t let the sun go down… I have
no pictures of the sign, I just remember seeing it. My
class was the first class to have an African American
person to have ever attended the school district. I
believe she was the first to have ever graduated from
Iowa Park High School. (I moved and did not graduate
high school from Iowa Park.) I remember hearing some
of the information from my father. He was the Baptist
minister. I think he worked towards having the sign
removed.”