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?
- Surely
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Probably Not, Although Still Very Few Black People
Census Information
Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1860 | ||||||||
1870 | ||||||||
1880 | ||||||||
1890 | 8303 | 88 | ||||||
1900 | 4964 | 4951 | 13 | |||||
1910 | ||||||||
1920 | 4190 | 0 | ||||||
1930 | 3793 | 0 | ||||||
1940 | ||||||||
1950 | ||||||||
1960 | 6244 | 1 | ||||||
1970 | ||||||||
1980 | ||||||||
1990 | 6412 | 24 | ||||||
2000 | ||||||||
2010 | ||||||||
2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
“I remember being shocked to learn soon after
moving there [Plattsmouth] that blacks were not
allowed to even work in that town after 5 or 6 pm. I
had never heard of such a thing at that time… Not
only did I never see a black student at Plattsmouth
High, only once do I recall ever seeing a black person
in the town of Plattsmouth. He was working on a
construction crew shortly after I moved there [1961],
and that’s when I was told (I can’t recall by whom) that
he would have to be out of Plattsmouth by 5 p.m
because of a town ordinance that did not allow blacks
to remain beyond that hour… I would not describe the
kids that I knew as more racist than many of the
average white kids that I knew in Florida or California.
But they imbibed a form of racism based on not
having much if any normal contact with blacks in their
daily lives. Increasing their fear and hatred of blacks
were the stories of sex and mayhem, such as the
above, that they heard in regard to blacks in Omaha.
During the daily course of events, however, the
Plattsmouth people that I knew rarely talked about
race at all, reflective of the absence of blacks in their
daily lives. But when they did, they were likely to
express fear and loathing, and to use the ‘N’ word
freely.”