Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Independent City or Town
- Metro Area
- Politics c. 1860?
- Slightly Democratic
- Unions, Organized Labor?
- Don’t Know
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?
- Probably Not, Although Still Very Few Black People
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1860 | ||||||||
| 1870 | ||||||||
| 1880 | ||||||||
| 1890 | ||||||||
| 1900 | ||||||||
| 1910 | 1 | |||||||
| 1920 | 1 | |||||||
| 1930 | 0 | |||||||
| 1940 | 2751 | |||||||
| 1950 | ||||||||
| 1960 | 4244 | |||||||
| 1970 | 3968 | 28 | ||||||
| 1980 | ||||||||
| 1990 | 4001 | 4 | 0 | |||||
| 2000 | 4352 | 4028 | 7 | 31 | 53 | 149 | ||
| 2010 | ||||||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Threat of Violence
- Reputation
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
- Asian
- Native American
Comments
6/17/2002
“The gospel according to Myers”
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Portland Oregonian
HARRY ESTEVE
BEAVERTON
Clay Myers has them entranced. At 75, his hair dissolved by chemotherapy, Myers speaks …Republican nonconformists, including Gov. Tom McCall, U.S. Sen. Mark Hatfield and Myers, ran the show.
Myers who served successively as secretary of state and treasurer for nearly 20 years from the late 1960s to the early ’80s serves up a message of political compromise and inclusion.
…. The political side of Myers developed early, beginning as a youngster in Tillamook where he pondered the reasoning behind the town’s “sunset law,” which required African Americans, Native Americans and other minorities to be indoors by nightfall. It didn’t make sense but it was the accepted way of life, he says. His parents never questioned it.