Texas
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?
- Possible
- 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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| 1980 | 2480 | 2469 | 0 | 1 | ||||
| 1990 | 6640 | 2 | ||||||
| 2000 | 8731 | 8525 | 4 | 18 | 25 | 23 | 159 | 2 |
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| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
A reference librarian in nearby Beaumont remembers there were cross burnings when a black family moved in.
Referring to their all-white compositions, an amateur historian said of Nederland, Port Neches, Lumberton, and Groves, “Had someone come into any of them in the ’30s, I don’t know what would have happened.” However, he later denied that anything would have happened and rejected any incidents in Lumberton, suggesting instead that blacks were only reluctant to move in.
A retired educator and administrator has identified Lumberton as a white flight community and recalled the town served as the Texas KKK headquarters in the early 1970s.