Kentucky
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
- Still Sundown?
- Surely Not
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1940 | 1273 | 1 | ||||||
| 1950 | 2401 | 1 | ||||||
| 1960 | 15155 | 2 | ||||||
| 1970 | 19223 | 23 | ||||||
| 1980 | ||||||||
| 1990 | 15535 | 2311 | ||||||
| 2000 | 15157 | 4595 | 39 | 64 | ||||
| 2010 | 15264 | 7425 | 30 | 106 | ||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Realtors
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
The Wade Case made the news in 1954. A black family had moved to Shively which resulted in cross burning and bombings of the house. The story is documented in Anne Braden, The Wall Between, 1958. Braden and her husband bought the house in then all-white Shively on behalf of the Wade family.
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Shively now has a large black population.