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
- Black
Comments
“Myakka City was a bustling, booming little
beneficiary of the Florida land boom of the 1920s.
Black Americans built the railroads and fueled the
lumber & turpentine industries. Then came the
economic devastation of the Great Depression and
hooded Klansmen returned Myakka City to its ethnic
‘purity.'”
“Blacks still don’t live here. They tell me of their
fears of being here after sundown. And Myakka City
‘historians’ have erased all mention of African
Americans. A recent sign in town said, ‘KKK Die
Niggers.'”
-posted to the web, 2002
The 1960 voter rolls list 270 white voters and 0
“colored”.
Myakka City is too small to be listed in the 2000
census, but the zip code it uses has a total population
of 4239 people, with only 23 black people, 10 of
whom are in 4 households.