Tennessee
Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Independent City or Town
- Metro Area
- Cumberlands
- 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?
- Perhaps, Some Oral Evidence
- Year of Greatest Interest
- 1897
- Still Sundown?
- Probably Not, Although Still Very Few Black People
Census Information
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| 1960 | 1508 | 1 | ||||||
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| 2000 | 11530 | 69 | ||||||
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Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
Testimony of a TN resident:
“I’m from Nashville, Tn. According to local stories, there was a sign in Soddy Daisy, an East Tennessee town that said, “Niggers’ fun, look and run.”
I know about Soddy Daisy because the town is right outside Chattanooga, Tennessee. My grandmother’s sister lived in Chattanooga and her mother (my great grandmother) went to visit at least once a year. As for the story, I heard it from my mother and my grandmother. I have no idea who they got it from… Still, I’ve heard my grandmother call West Tennessee “Lynch A Nigger A Night” Country.”
Charles Brown lynched, Soddy-Daisy, TN, February 26 1897.