Michigan
Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Suburb
- Metro Area
- Detroit
- Politics c. 1860?
- Unions, Organized Labor?
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Probable
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Don’t Know
Census Information
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| 1990 | 84,724 | 80,197 | 2,829 | 1,069 | ||||
| 2000 | 86,602 | 75,527 | 5,867 | 2,459 | ||||
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Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
Westland organized its own school district circa 1947,
to keep children out the Inkster schools. Inkster is an
interracial town.
“My 8-year-old grandson was called ‘nigger’ by a
schoolmate in Westland. His parents were
unprejudiced and were horrified by their son’s act;
they agreed he got it from schoolmates.”
-posted to the web, 2004