Tennessee
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?
- Probable
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Perhaps, Some Oral Evidence
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Probably Not, Although Still Very Few Black People
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1950 | 1147 | 5 | ||||||
| 1960 | 1343 | 0 | ||||||
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| 1990 | 1824 | 24 | ||||||
| 2000 | 2228 | |||||||
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| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
Testimony of an eyewitness:
“I know there are far too many to list but a few whose reputation persisted at least until the early 1990s include Crossville and Waynesboro, Tennessee. As of 1995, there was still a painted sign on the state highway connecting Waynesboro to Clifton that read “Clifton Niggers Stay Put” or something like that. (I saw it but the wording eludes me now.)”