Oklahoma
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
- Black
Comments
“Oldtimers in Norman said negroes have not been allowed to remain overnight in Norman, Lexington, Moore, and Noble since territorial days.” — “Oklahoma Daily,” 9/23/1938, front page, quoted in Michael Givel, “Sundown on the Prairie: The extralegal Campaigns and Efforts from 1889 to 1967 to Exclude African Americans from Norman, Oklahoma,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 46 (Fall 2018), 260-279.