Pennsylvania
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?
- Possible
- Was there an ordinance?
- Sign?
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Surely Not
Census Information
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| 2000 | 23,906 | 2,921 | ||||||
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Method of Exclusion
- Other
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
On September 15 the NY Times carried a story under the heading “Johnstown Expels 2,000 Workingmen.”
Mayor Cauffiel, in response to high racial tensions, expelled all black residents from the town who had not lived there for at least seven years. The tension stemmed from the fact that two police officers were supposedly killed by a black man.
Twelve KKK crosses burned overlooking Johnstown as police rescued blacks from a lynch mob of steelworkers, 1919.