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James W. Loewen (1942-2021)

We mourn the loss of our friend and colleague and remain committed to the work he began.

Lincoln

Nebraska

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?
Probable
Was there an ordinance?
Don't Know
Sign?
Don’t Know
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
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2020

Method of Exclusion

  • Violent Expulsion
  • Violence Towards Newcomers
  • Zoning

Main Ethnic Group(s)

  • Unknown

Group(s) Excluded

  • Black

Comments

“1929: In Lincoln, NE, a mob of whites drove 200 Negroes from town after a white policeman was shot.
Gov. Weaver ordered that those persons driven out must be permitted to return, and that if any further
difficulties ensued, martial law would be instituted.”

In the 1940s, Lincoln bankers began redlining in Lincoln, in an attempt to restrict blacks to a neighborhood called “T-Town”.

The suburb of Havelock was started with restrictive covenants in place, and did not break until the 1970s.
It is now part of Lincoln.

Blacks migrated to Nebraska after the Civil War, and were brought in as railroad workers or strikebreakers
in later years. In some part of Nebraska they were welcomed or at least tolerated. In other places this
was not the case. “In Lincoln, for instance, in 1879, a group of 150 MS [Mississippi] Negroes who attempted
to settle there were driven out.”