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James W. Loewen (1942-2021)

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Utica

Ohio

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?
Possible
Was there an ordinance?
Sign?
Year of Greatest Interest
Still Sundown?

Census Information

The available census data from 1860 to the present
Total White Black Asian Native Hispanic Other BHshld
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Method of Exclusion

Main Ethnic Group(s)

Group(s) Excluded

  • Black

Comments

Email 2/2015 from a former, nearby resident: “Utica is an older town, I lived in its extension Shelby Township. The suburbs were mainly white, with 2 or 3 black people in the graduating class of 1986. Everybody was open to the Black classmates, but not many lived there.
I obtained a warranty deed copy of my neighbor’s house, stating that the property may not be sold to Negroes, dating back to 1952. Of course this was outlawed by the Fair Housing act of 1968.
I live in Shelby Township again and my subdivision is somewhat diverse: Blacks, Polish, Albanian, Indian, White, and some of them original owners.

Two longtime resident have said that there used to be a local ordinance that outlawed black people in the town after dark.

A longtime resident said she knew the telephone operator in town. The operator would frequently have to transfer calls to the police to alert them that a black man or woman would be traveling through town. The black man or woman had to have a police escort.