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James W. Loewen (1942-2021)

We mourn the loss of our friend and colleague and remain committed to the work he began.

Rock Springs

Wyoming

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?
Possible
Was there an ordinance?
Don't Know
Sign?
Don’t Know
Year of Greatest Interest
1885
Still Sundown?
Don’t Know

Census Information

The available census data from 1860 to the present
Total White Black Asian Native Hispanic Other BHshld
1860
1870
1880
1890 3071 2
1900
1910
1920
1930
1940
1950
1960
1970
1980
1990
2000
2010
2020

Method of Exclusion

  • Violent Expulsion
  • Unknown

Main Ethnic Group(s)

  • Unknown

Group(s) Excluded

  • Black
  • Asian

Comments

An incident occurred in Rock Springs in 1885 in which 28 Chinese were killed because they refused to join whites in a strike for higher wages. According Sucheng Chang, author of “US and Them: A History of Intolerance in America,” whites looted the 79 huts that the Chinese lived in while raping the women and beating the children. Eventually the whites burnt down the camp and 600 Chinese fled to safety.