Illinois
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?
- Surely
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Probably Not, Although Still Very Few Black People
Census Information
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| 1990 | 780 | |||||||
| 2000 | 740 | 724 | 1 | |||||
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Method of Exclusion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
Tamaroa was notorious as a racist town. Its residents once stoned a black passer-by to death. It was on the ICRR. Blacks from nearby towns, such as Du Quoin, occasionally walked along the railroad tracks to go north. White youths would throw rocks at them, and on one occasion it got out of hand. Tamaroa became locally notorious as “the rock throwers. (According to a local historian.)
“They [Tamaroans] have been known to hang a couple. One ran through, and they castrated him. Several residents of Tamaroa told me those stories. One man told me he witnessed the hanging. They took him down and burned him on a brushpile.” (According to a local historian.)