Texas
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
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1940 | 1263 | 0 | ||||||
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| 1990 | 63535 | 19000 | ||||||
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| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
A black radio operator, stationed at Fort Hood (near
Killeen) in 1944, reported “There were about three
black civilians who worked in Killeen and they had to
be out of there before the sun went down. Who knows
what would have happened if you weren’t out of town
by sundown? Be beat up or lynched. Nobody tested
it.”
By the mid 1960s, the army had many black soldiers
and employees. The presence of the army near Killeen
helped break the town’s sundown rules, and it is now
interracial.