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
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Method of Exclusion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
email 2/2008
i’m a university of missouri senior journalism student. i’m working on a writing project about a time when the kansas city monarchs negro leagues baseball team came to my hometown in southwest missouri, stockton, in 1926. i contacted the baseball hall of fame, and tim wiles said it might be in my best interest to contact you about sundown towns.
yes, the folks i’ve talked to are “old timers,” residents of the area for many generations. i spoke with four residents who are in their 90s, one who lived on a farm, one who lived in town and was so poor he had to drive a livestock truck to kansas city during the nights while he was in high school to help his family survive, one who lived in town who’s dad was the prosecuting attorney and was able to go to college during the great depression, and one who lived on a farm way out of stockton, closer to a neighboring town who went to war and later worked as the cedar county assessor.
i have yet to check out your book for what i expect to be a good read, but just a glimpse at your website shows that stockton is not listed as a sundown town, which i think is interesting because many of the men and women i’ve interviewed have spoken about stockton like it was a sundown town. one person mentioned it had a “traveling” sign, meaning that if someone heard a black person was coming or had come to town, the sign would make it to the place where the “outsider” was going. i thought that was interesting, and wondered if you had any insight on this.
thanks for any advice you can give me on this. please feel free to call or just shoot me back an e-mail if you have time.