Michigan
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?
- Possible
- 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 | |
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| 1940 | 2247 | 1 | ||||||
| 1950 | 2807 | 0 | ||||||
| 1960 | ||||||||
| 1970 | 3817 | 0 | 24 | |||||
| 1980 | 3963 | 0 | ||||||
| 1990 | 3889 | 1 | 20 | 34 | ||||
| 2000 | 3789 | 19 | 9 | 7 | ||||
| 2010 | 3883 | 28 | 17 | 7 | ||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Violence Towards Newcomers
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
“I know of three families that settled in Portland and were chased out by the red necks in our town. There is no ordinance that I know of that prohibited blacks
from settling in portland. My parents told me about the black families that were chased out and one family lived about a mile down the road from me.”
-posted to the web, 2002