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?
- Probably Not, Although Still Very Few Black People
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1950 | 1103 | 3 | ||||||
| 1960 | 2007 | 4 | ||||||
| 1970 | 2740 | 1 | ||||||
| 1980 | ||||||||
| 1990 | 2044 | 2 | ||||||
| 2000 | 1559 | 16 | ||||||
| 2010 | 1179 | 17 | 13 | 4 | ||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
A former Long Beach resident writes,
“Long Beach, at least in the 1950s and 60s, didn’t have signs, for sure, but it was quite clear that even the few blacks who were professionals and had the economic means didn’t live there. There wasn’t a single one. Since then, there have been a few.
LaPorte, 15 miles south of Long Beach and Michigan City, is and has been fairly white. Very few minorities. More of them reside in a former WWII era munitions plant factory town called Kingsford Heights, about 15 south.
I’ve know a number of people from the Chesterton and Valparaiso areas over the years, and you bet that county is quite white. It wasn’t until the early 90s that Valparaiso High School, a perennial power in basketball (the smart white player variety) started to have a black player, usually just one.”
A Long Beach resident had to sign a statement when he bought his home in Long Beach, that he would not sell it except to a white, Anglo-Saxon Protestant, even though his wife was Catholic.