Basic Information
- Type of Place
- CDP, Unincorporated Borough, or MCD
- Metro Area
- Politics c. 1860?
- Unions, Organized Labor?
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
- 1937
- Still Sundown?
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1860 | ||||||||
| 1870 | ||||||||
| 1880 | ||||||||
| 1890 | ||||||||
| 1900 | ||||||||
| 1910 | ||||||||
| 1920 | ||||||||
| 1930 | ||||||||
| 1940 | ||||||||
| 1950 | ||||||||
| 1960 | ||||||||
| 1970 | ||||||||
| 1980 | ||||||||
| 1990 | ||||||||
| 2000 | ||||||||
| 2010 | ||||||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
Comments
After the flood of January 1937, Johnston City received 287 flood refugees from around Mounds and Mound City. “When the danger of flooding has passed, the black people were transferred to Wolf Lake, the white refugees to Anna…”
Wolf Lake appears to have been all white in 1940.
An email from a former resident of Wolf Lake stated:
“I remember when I was very young and lived in wolf lake, there was a big sign on hwy 3, both north and south ends, that read the ‘”n word” dont let the sun set on your back in wolf lake.’ I lived there till I was nineteen and don’t know of a black ever living there.”
“On January 20 [1937] we received word that some 200 people were to be brought here from around Mounds and Mound City. [flood refugees] Eventually this number grew to 287, and these homeless people were housed in the Miner’s Hall, the Baptist Tabernacle, [and abandoned stores]… About half the refugees brought here were colored, and although the town had the reputation of never permitting a black to remain overnight here, they were welcomed with courtesy and kindness in 1937.” [not as residents, of course] “When the danger of flooding has passed, the black people were transferred to Wolf Lake, the white refugees to Anna…”