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?
- Surely
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Probably
Census Information
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| 2000 | 981 | 947 | 1 | 3 | 19 | 5 | 1 | |
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Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
I went to high school in a town in Arkansas called
Mount Ida. There are absolutely NO blacks in the
town. No blacks in the elementary or high school. The
closest to a black kid is a boy of mixed blood, but he
had a white mom and white step dad.”
-college sophomore, former resident of Mount Ida
When a local man considered building a sawmill,
“leaders in Mount Ida… reacted as had the leaders of
Amity, years before: no sawmill, no blacks.”
White farmers also warned the railroad contractor
not to use a crew of blacks on the railroad grade, so
they left.
Blacks hired to straighten rails, etc., were forced to
leave before finishing their job, c. 1923-31. “‘They
would not allow black people in Montgomery County,’
one old resident recalls.”