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?
- Unlikely
- Was there an ordinance?
- Sign?
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Surely Not
Census Information
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| 1990 | 80,277 | 62,039 | 15,053 | 4,797 | ||||
| 2000 | 77,145 | 54,593 | 15,924 | 5,444 | ||||
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Method of Exclusion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
Comments
Kalamazoo most likely never was a sundown town; but, according to a current student at Western Michigan University: “The Kalamazoo Gazette published an image online of a KG article from 1965 showing evidence of Sundown Town behavior. As you may be aware, Kalamazoo was then and still remains racially segregated, with the black population largely concentrated in the area North of the city’s downtown. The article is apparently an attempt to explain life on
the North side to the rest of the city’s population. There is a quote close to the top of the rightmost column from Fred Lilly, the former head of the NAACP saying that blacks weren’t allowed on downtown streets in Kalamazoo after 10 PM in the 1920’s.”
http://blog.mlive.com/pagesofourpast/2009/02/June-1965.jpg