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James W. Loewen (1942-2021)

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Marshall County

Kentucky

Basic Information

Type of Place
County
Metro Area
Politics c. 1860?
Unions, Organized Labor?

Sundown Town Status

Sundown Town in the Past?
Probable
Was there an ordinance?
Sign?
Year of Greatest Interest
1909
Still Sundown?
Probably

Census Information

The available census data from 1860 to the present
Total White Black Asian Native Hispanic Other BHshld
1860
1870
1880 440
1890 11287 342
1900
1910 15771 135
1920
1930 12889 62
1940
1950
1960 16736 10
1970
1980 25637 6 125
1990 10
2000 30125 37 51 45
2010 31448 49 59 88
2020

Method of Exclusion

  • Violent Expulsion
  • Threat of Violence
  • Private Bad Behavior

Main Ethnic Group(s)

Group(s) Excluded

  • Black

Comments

In 1908 Birmingham drove out its blacks, killing two and torturing others. (Waldrep, Christopher. Night Riders: Defending Community in the Black Patch, 1890-1915.Durham, N.C.:Duke UP,1993: 151)

After the incident, “notices were posted in Benton, the county seat, ordering all blacks out” (Jaspin, Eliot. Buried in the Bitter Waters, p. 100.)