Michigan
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?
- Possible
- Was there an ordinance?
- Sign?
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
Census Information
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Method of Exclusion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
Used to be referred to as “Sterling Whites.”
Email from May, 2016: “Sterling Heights started in the late 1950s and early 1960s, my mother delivered the mail there and remembers there being no diversity at that time. There were parts plants for the auto industry, but it was to her knowledge uniformly white. During the 1970s, just before she left the area, some Chaldean families moved in, but there wasn’t any overt sign of trouble. In that way, Sterling Heights resembles Dearborn, not welcoming to African-Americans, but not necessarily as hostile to Middle Eastern families, particularly Orthodox Christian. It has a rather substantial Middle Eastern and Balkan community today, and a small black population.”