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?
- Surely
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Probably
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1920 | 4310 | 5 | ||||||
| 1930 | 3588 | 2 | ||||||
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| 1970 | 2704 | 1 | ||||||
| 1980 | 2806 | 2 | ||||||
| 1990 | 2495 | 1 | ||||||
| 2000 | 2330 | 1 | ||||||
| 2010 | ||||||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
September 2007
One person thinks of it as “A hot bed of predjudice and shunning. Garage burning and harassment. Afraid to enter public facilities or walk the streets.”
We received an email stating that in the mid 1990s, a local restaurant in West Terre Haute called the Horseshoe Club would not serve blacks. Additionally, the man claimed that “West Terre Haute seemed to keep out blacks. I don’t know the mechanism, but I have heard antidotal evidence that houses were burned to keep the blacks out if they moved there.”