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?
- 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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| 1860 | ||||||||
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| 1920 | ||||||||
| 1930 | 2273 | 6 | ||||||
| 1940 | 2499 | 6 | ||||||
| 1950 | 2961 | 6 | ||||||
| 1960 | 25136 | 4 | ||||||
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| 1990 | ||||||||
| 2000 | 58974 | 37153 | 926 | 3498 | 564 | 28922 | 13953 | |
| 2010 | ||||||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
La Habra now has a large Hispanic population.
About Town: La Habra
State: CA
Message 01/07/2008:
My dad grew up in one of the Mexican barrios outside of La Habra (barrio Alta Vista) and attended the segregated “Mexican School.” It was, just outside the city limits until the early 1960s.
My dad lived down the street from the black family. City leaders argued that the school was needed in order to teach kids to speak English. But in the 1940s when a black family moved to town, the Williams family could only live in the barrio. And their kids had to attend the Mexican School. Every Mexican kid in the barrio knew the Williams kids. My best guess is that they came to La Habra in the 40s or early 50s. The family had a house in barrio Alta Vista until the 1970s. In class photos from Wilson School – the “Mexican” school – they are easy to find. They didn’t have a language issue, but learned fluent Spanish.