Oregon
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?
- Probably Not, Although Still Very Few Black People
Census Information
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| 2000 | 12327 | 11454 | 84 | 155 | 96 | 172 | ||
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Method of Exclusion
- Private Bad Behavior
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
Michael W. Homel, Unlocking City Hall (Malabar, FL: Krieger, 2001) writes about the defensive construction of an exclusionary community by the Ku Klux Klan in small-town La Grande, Oregon (pp. 106-07). These pages cite David A. Horowitz, “Order, Solidarity, and Vigilance: The Ku Klux Klan in La Grande, OR,” in Shawn Lay, ed., The Invisible Empire in the West (U of IL P, 1992), 185-215. La Grande had 15 blacks, c. 1920.
In 1922, Prohibition raid results in 5 arrests in the black district. April 1923, arrest and conviction of bootlegger Dee Rogers. 8/19/23, Pearl Fagin arrested for keeping a whorehouse (David A. Horowitz, Inside the Klavern (Carbondale: SIU Press, 1999), 9.). Also, the Klan governor Walter Pierce lived in La Grande.