Illinois
Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Independent City or Town
- Metro Area
- Politics c. 1860?
- Unions, Organized Labor?
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Surely
- Was there an ordinance?
- Perhaps, Some Oral Evidence
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Probably Not, Although Still Very Few Black People
Census Information
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| 1990 | 2375 | |||||||
| 2000 | 2141 | 2119 | 6 | |||||
| 2010 | 1979 | 25 | 5 | |||||
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Method of Exclusion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
In Marissa, “a colored man is not allowed to take up his residence.” (N. Dwight Harris, The History of Negro Servitude in Illinois (NY: Negro Universities Press, 1969 [1904]), 242.)
One woman whose boyfriend is from Marissa said GFWC was written on the welcome sign to the town. She said it meant %u201CGod Fearing White Community%u201D. She also said that the town once had a black family, but they moved out after the town refused to remove this part of the sign. Email; March 2010