Indiana
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?
- Sign?
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1960 | 2679 | 4 | ||||||
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| 1990 | 5,745 | 5,704 | 3 | 1 | ||||
| 2000 | 6,071 | 5,979 | 15 | 5 | ||||
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Method of Exclusion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
email November 2007:
The Sellersburg incident involved the lynching of a black man for allegedly raping a white woman in February 1883. The incident is recorded but not the names of the parties involved. I grew up in the Sellersburg area and heard about the incident throughout my life and the admonition “don’t let the sun set on you.” I don’t know of any black person or family ever living in Sellersburg or surrounding Silver Creek Township. When I was in elementary school back in the 50s, I heard that a black student named David White who briefly attended Silver Creek High School, but he apparently lived in an outlying part of the township that was close to Jeffersonville.