Maryland
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?
- Probable
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Perhaps, Some Oral Evidence
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Don’t Know
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1940 | 1,587 | 1 | ||||||
| 1950 | 21,259 | 10 | ||||||
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| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
“We all knew that blacks were not wanted in Garrett
County, especially in Oakland, where they tried to
lynch Mr. Les Clifford – the saxophone player – when I
was a boy.”
-Henry Louis Gate, Jr.
“Mr. Les [Clifford] was ‘up Oakland,’ a town full of
crackers and rednecks, if ever there was one, located
on Deep Creek Lake, 25 or so miles from Piedmont.
They hated niggers up Oakland… NIGGERS READ AND
RUN, Daddy claimed a sign there said. AND IF YOU
CAN’T READ, RUN ANYWAY.”
-former black resident of Garrett County, MD