Delaware
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?
- No
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Don’t Know
Census Information
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Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
- Jewish
- Other
Comments
In the 1930s, Blacks, “Moors”, and Jews were not
allowed to live in Rehoboth Beach, although they could
work there, according to a former resident.
“There were no specific ordinances or other legal
documents. It was just a matter of custom. There was
a special beach reserved for coloreds and they lived
together outside the town limits… Segregation existed
in the schools and elsewhere until Brown vs. Board of
Education in 1955 [sic] but I don’t know what part law
and what part custom played in all of this.”
-former resident