Basic Information
- Type of Place
- County
- Metro Area
- Politics c. 1860?
- Unions, Organized Labor?
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Probable
- Was there an ordinance?
- Perhaps, Some Oral Evidence
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Don’t Know
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1860 | ||||||||
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| 1880 | 130 | |||||||
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| 2000 | 6,958 | 6,799 | 2 | 7 | ||||
| 2010 | ||||||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
A black musician who played a small town in Taylor
County was told by the man who hired him that most
of the towns in the county had sundown ordinances.
In 1996, a biracial football player for the Stanton high
school, in Taylor County, was called “nigger” and
attacked by white students from Lenox, a sundown
town in the same county. According to the Des Moines
Register, a Taylor County grand jury declined to press
charges.
“Bobby Burham, who is 72 and lives in Clarinda in Page
County, calls Taylor County home to a ‘bunch of
rednecks. People are prejudiced against something
they are not.’
Sheriff Lonnie Weed disagrees. ‘Everybody says racial
jokes, but nobody holds anything against’ people of
other races or ethnic origins, he said.”
-“Racism Lurking at Sundown”, Des Moines Register,
27 February 2006