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?
- Probable
- Was there an ordinance?
- Sign?
- Perhaps, Some Oral Evidence
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
Census Information
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| 1990 | 12722 | 11923 | 36 | 10 | ||||
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Method of Exclusion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
Email 1/2008
It was famously rumored of Kingman, Arizona that, until the 1960s or ’70s, a sign at the city limits proclaimed, “N*gger, don’t let the sun set on your ass in Kingman”. In the late 1970s there was one black family in the entire city. Now, in 2008, there are perhaps two to three dozen black residents in a city of 20,000.
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email 2/2008
The %u201CKingmanites%u201D I%u2019ve gotten to know well tell me there was a sign just on the outskirts of town that remained up until about 20 years ago. I don%u2019t know the exact verbiage, but it warned blacks not to let the sun set on them within the town limits.
Since working here in my 2nd year as an Elementary Counselor, I am now over the shock of hearing children use racist language, but no less disturbed by it. In fact, our principal told me that she just saw one of our white students at WalMart with his parents wearing a brand new jacket- on the back was a swastika and the words %u201CWhite Power%u201D.