Ohio
Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Suburb
- Metro Area
- Cleveland
- 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?
- Surely Not
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1940 | 2391 | 12 | ||||||
| 1950 | 7359 | 3 | ||||||
| 1960 | 16805 | 11 | ||||||
| 1970 | 19749 | 11 | ||||||
| 1980 | 18093 | 13 | ||||||
| 1990 | 15710 | 75 | ||||||
| 2000 | 15279 | 196 | 1 | 182 | ||||
| 2010 | 14001 | 901 | 5 | 223 | ||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Italian
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
Email testimony from 07/2013:
“Lyndhurst was heavily populated by people of Italian descent in the 1970s, and they didn’t like black people. They said as much, loudly. Black people noticed. I worked in a factory when I was younger (1978), and I suggested to a black co-worker to go eat in an eatery in Lyndhurst, and he said, more or less, black folks don’t go there, unless they’re looking for a fight.
I recall that when black families bought homes in Lyndhurst and immediately adjacent Mayfield Heights in the early 1980s, they were hounded out of the place by attacks in the night.”