Marinette

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	11253		18
1900	16195		1
1910	14610		1
1920	13610		19
1930	13734		15
1940	14183		13
1950	14178		17
1960	13329		11
1970	12696		0
1980	11965		4
1990	11843		5
2000
2010	10,968		79
2020

Method of Exclusion

• Unknown

Main Ethnic Group(s)

• Unknown

Group(s) Excluded

• Black

Comments

email 1/2008:
Having grown up in Marinette, I remember a few families living in town for generations, so the 1970 census citing 0 Blacks living in town cannot be accurate. — Marinette teacher.

email 8/2007:

One reader reports that “a cousin is married to a member of the Marinette, Wisconsin, high school football team, 1952, and I attended a game between the Marinette Marines and a team from East Chicago, Indiana.

Marinette was not in a football league so they scheduled games with many teams even though far away. When the team from East Chicago arrived it seems that many of them were African American. Nobody in town was quite prepared for this. And, Oshkosh, Green Bay and Marinette were not welcoming communities for minorities.

The game was a brutal affair. Standing behind the team bench I heard the players’ racist remarks and vows to break the leg of the star player on the East Chicago team. And, they did.

Worst thing was that the only hotel in town, The Marinette Hotel, refused to
allow the Black players to stay there. Ended up the whole team had to sleep on the gym floor at the high school using wrestling mats. Sad but true.”