Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Metro Area
- Politics c. 1860?
- Unions, Organized Labor?
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Was there an ordinance?
- Sign?
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
Census Information
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Method of Exclusion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
Comments
Leavenworth Times, July 26, 1901 “Didn’t Want Any Negroes”: (story dateline, Chicago) “While residents of Maywood, Melrose Park and Bellwood waited along the tracks of the Chicago Junction railway during the early hours of the morning to bar out the trainload of southern negroes, the much sought train was sidetracked at Blue Island.
The Illinois Central road turned the special train over to the Junction railway at 12:20 a.m. When Blue Rapids was reached it was decidede [sic] not to proceed to Melrose Park till morning.
The negroes were loud in their protestations that they would no [sic] have come north had they known such a tempest was brewing. All day yesterday the reports that reached them of the greeting awaiting them at Melrose Park grew more threatening. Early today it was declared on the train that 100 of the men had deserted at Fulton, Ind., and gone to work for the railway company. Ignorant that the train was at Blue Island the peaceable committee, composed of the Rev. T. F. Cookingham, Peter H. Bolander, W. H. Schockey, A. H. Gallagher, Charles Wolf and fifteen others, during the early hours of the morning awaited the negroes, hoping to persuade them not to leave the cars and the engineer to pull out to some place of safety.
As an offset to the peace committee, another crowd, estimated at 125 men, all armed with revolvers, were scattered along the tracks awaiting to give the negroes a hint to leave or take the consequences if they remained.”