Oklahoma
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?
- Surely
- Was there an ordinance?
- Sign?
- Year of Greatest Interest
- 1892
- Still Sundown?
- Probably Not, Although Still Very Few Black People
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1920 | ||||||||
| 1930 | 836 | 835 | 0 | |||||
| 1940 | ||||||||
| 1950 | 1176 | 0 | ||||||
| 1960 | 1216 | 1208 | 1 | |||||
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| 1980 | ||||||||
| 1990 | 1776 | 1627 | 8 | |||||
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| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Violent Expulsion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
Comments
According to the Guthrie (OK) News, the black residents of Lexington, Oklahoma were run out of town after “Negro men were tied up and beaten and Negro women outraged.” Federal district Court indicted twenty whites, but the cases were continued for a year and finally dismissed.