Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Suburb
- Metro Area
- Politics c. 1860?
- Unions, Organized Labor?
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
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| 2010 | 13,787 | 233 | ||||||
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Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
“I grew up in Swampscott, Massachusetts in the
1960’s, graduating HS in 1975. I don’t think I ever even saw a black person in real life until the famous forced busing of METCO students came along… I do remember hearing that there was one (ONE) black family in town, not two blocks from where I grew up, but I never saw them. I think that it’s not quite as segregated now, but I doubt there are ten black families living there today.”
-posted to the web, 2006
METCO was not a part of the Boston “forced busing” situation. It was a voluntary program in the suburbs of Boston where urban youth were voluntarily bussed in to give them different opportunities while exposing the local youth to non white people.
– Posted to the web in response to above
Email:
11/2010
“Swampscott, MA is not still a sundown town. I live here and personally know black families that do as well.”