Indiana
Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Independent City or Town
- Metro Area
- Politics c. 1860?
- Don’t Know
- Unions, Organized Labor?
- Don’t Know
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Possible
- Was there an ordinance?
- Perhaps, Some Oral Evidence
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Surely Not
Census Information
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| 1980 | 12985 | 53 | ||||||
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| 2000 | 11743 | 44 | 60 | 124 | 172 | |||
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Method of Exclusion
- Threat of Violence
- Reputation
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
A woman married to a man who grew up in Wabash, Indiana, writes:
%u201CHe told me that he had *never* seen a ‘live’ black person until he was 21. I found this inconceivable as I had and I grew up in a little cowtown in California. On an early married visit to Wabash, I mentioned to one of his friends, who worked in a library, how surprised I was when my husband said he hadn’t seen a black person ’til he was 21 and his friend very matter of factly said, “Well, they weren’t allowed inside the city limits.”