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James W. Loewen (1942-2021)

We mourn the loss of our friend and colleague and remain committed to the work he began.

Walla Walla

Washington

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?
Don't Know
Sign?
Don’t Know
Year of Greatest Interest
Still Sundown?
Don’t Know

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

  • Unknown

Main Ethnic Group(s)

  • Unknown

Group(s) Excluded

  • Black
  • Native American

Comments

“I remember being down town late one afternoon,
waiting for my dad at the barbershop when the siren
went off. I asked my mom what it was and she said at
6 o’clock all the Indians and negros had to be out of
town. ‘They had to ride away into the sunset.’ I
thought like in the movies. I asked if we had to go and
she said no.
“When I started first grade a little Indian boy, John,
came to school for a few days. The teacher sat him
beside me. I tried to make friends with him, but he did
not talk much and I was always getting in trouble for
talking. He said he was living in a camp beyond where
we lived at the edge of town.”
-former Walla Walla resident, born 1946