Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Suburb
- Metro Area
- Politics c. 1860?
- Unions, Organized Labor?
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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| 1930 | 2636 | 6 | ||||||
| 1940 | 2472 | 9 | ||||||
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| 1970 | 5151 | 14 | 6 | |||||
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Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
Email 1/2008
I grew up in Manchester (born 1977). I remember hearing growing up that the town had only one registered black voter, an old lobsterman known as Capt Dusty. He also ran a bait & lobster shop on the waterfront. As I heard it, he came to town as a servant for an old rich lady who used to live out past where I grew up.
You might also want to add Jews to the excluded list. Manchester’s dominant population was wealthy Episcopalians from Boston, a population notorious for its anti-Semitism in previous years. There were also remarkably few Jews in town — the only Jewish family I can remember lived a couple of houses over, and the father was the founder of SAIL and Inc magazines.
We received an email warning that any black people found in Manchester after dark could be beaten and dropped the woods.