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?
- Sign?
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Don’t Know
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1900 | ||||||||
| 1910 | 32,642 | 45 | ||||||
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| 1950 | 83,835 | 30 | ||||||
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| 2010 | 92,271 | 5,024 | ||||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
Email from a longtime resident:
“I lived in Quincy, MA for 6 years (1953-1959), three in the neighborhood of Wollaston (a large area that encompasses some verty very wealthy folk and a blue collar neighborhood I lived in (Calumet off Vassall Sts.), and three 3 in Snug Harbor, a low-income project in Germantown. In both, I have no memory of ever seeing any African-Ameriucan children in either of the elementary schjools I attended (Francis W. Parker and Snug Harbor Elementary). Some time in Wollaston (1953-1956), my father, a jazz musician, had some of his musician friends over one night for some jamming. Most of the musicians involved were black. The next day, a delegation of neighbors (not very many, but I have no memory of this except from what my mother told me many years later) cam by to register their disapproval that my father had blacks in their neighborhood after dark. It’s entirely possible they or even one had spent the night. It never occured to me that Quincy may have been a sundown town, or that
perhaps some neighborhoods may have been.”