Alabama
Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Subregion
- Metro Area
- Politics c. 1860?
- Unions, Organized Labor?
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Surely
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Yes, Strong Oral Tradition
- 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
Comments
“When I taught in northeast Alabama, the Sand
Mountain area (Boaz, Albertville, etc.) was known for
excluding blacks historically. As one old-timer told
one of my students in an interview on the [Great]
Depression and race relations, ‘We didn’t have any
racial problems back then. As long as they were off
the mountain by sundown, there weren’t any
problems.'”
“The natives boast of signs reading: ‘Nigger – don’t
let the sun go down on your head.'”
“There are still signs up in parts of Sand Mountain
that say, ‘Nigger don’t let the sun fall on your black
ass here.'”
-email in June 2000