Idaho
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?
- Probable
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Don’t Know
Census Information
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Method of Exclusion
- Violent Expulsion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Asian
Comments
During a 1983 archeological dig in Moscow, ID, an elderly woman who had lived her entire life in the town reported that when she was a child in the 1900s, (approx. 1909) “cowboys” ran the Chinese population out of town. The Chinese population did not return until the 1920s.
However, there are signs of change. An email from July 2008 wrote, “Moscow is, as of July 2008, the only Idaho city that has joined the National League of Cities’ Inclusive Cities Partnership. It is home to the University of Idaho and generally considered one of the more liberal places in Idaho. But there’s no denying our state’s shameful treatment of Chinese miners during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.”