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James W. Loewen (1942-2021)

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Lepanto

Arkansas

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?
Unlikely
Was there an ordinance?
No
Sign?
No
Year of Greatest Interest
Still Sundown?
Surely Not

Census Information

The available census data from 1860 to the present
Total White Black Asian Native Hispanic Other BHshld
1860
1870
1880
1890
1900
1910
1920
1930
1940
1950
1960
1970
1980
1990 2,033 294
2000 2,133 1,757 332 1 1 45 21
2010
2020

Method of Exclusion

  • Unknown

Main Ethnic Group(s)

  • Unknown

Group(s) Excluded

  • Black

Comments

In the early 1900s, archeologist Clarence B. Moore
stated that Lepanto had a “dead line” that he couldn’t
pass during an archeological exploration without
endangering his black crew. This dead line was just beyond Lepanto, which was not itself a sundown town.