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?
- 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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| 1940 | 1000 | 0 | ||||||
| 1950 | 1014 | 0 | ||||||
| 1960 | ||||||||
| 1970 | 1260 | 0 | ||||||
| 1980 | ||||||||
| 1990 | 1529 | 8 | ||||||
| 2000 | 1816 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 12 | ||
| 2010 | 1899 | 5 | 2 | 4 | ||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Reputation
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
[The movie “Hoosiers” was based on the “Cinderella story’ of the Milan basketball team]
Bruce Newman writes in “Back Home In Indiana,” Sports Illustrated (2/18/1985):
%u201CIn September 1984 Milan High enrolled the first black pupil in its history. There are no blacks on the Milan basketball team, and until this year there never had been any black faces cheering for Milan in the stands either. “They don’t come,’ says one resident, “and they wouldn’t be welcome if they did.’ There are still many places in the state where that’s true. Two-thirds of Indiana’s black population lives in just two of its 92 counties, and the starting fives on the last four state championship teams have been all-white. At the final four last year there wasn’t a single black player on any team.
For nearly 20 years, the only Indiana schools that would schedule games against Attucks’s basketball team were Gary’s Roosevelt High and Evansville’s Lincoln High, the state’s other all-black schools. The remainder of the Attucks schedule had to be filled out with games against black schools from as far away as St. Louis, Louisville and Dayton, Ohio. The Indiana High School Athletic Association did its part to perpetuate the state’s de facto segregation by barring the three black schools from the state tournament until 1943, seven years after Jesse Owens had won his four gold medals in front of the Nazis at the Berlin Olympics.%u201D