Arizona
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?
- Probable
- Was there an ordinance?
- Yes, Strong Oral Tradition
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- 1959
- Still Sundown?
- Surely Not
Census Information
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| 2000 | 202,705 | 186,883 | 2,501 | 3,964 | 1,240 | 14,111 | 4,603 | |
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Method of Exclusion
- Police or Other Official Action
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
According to a conversation between Scott Simon and Howard Bryant on National Public Radio’s “Talk of the Nation”, Scottsdale was the spring training camp for the Boston Red Sox. When Pumpsie Green finally joined the team in 1959, he was not housed in the hotel with the rest of the team, nor even anywhere in Scottsdale. The Red Sox claimed the hotel was full with tourists! But the problem was Scottsdale: “Blacks could not live there after dark, and so he was sent seventeen miles away to live in Phoenix.”