Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Independent City or Town
- Metro Area
- Politics c. 1860?
- Unions, Organized Labor?
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Surely
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Yes, Strong Oral Tradition
- Year of Greatest Interest
- 1930
- Still Sundown?
- Probably
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1860 | ||||||||
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| 1930 | 1135 | 0 | ||||||
| 1940 | 1153 | 2 | ||||||
| 1950 | 1320 | 0 | ||||||
| 1960 | ||||||||
| 1970 | 1105 | 1 | ||||||
| 1980 | 1174 | |||||||
| 1990 | 0 | |||||||
| 2000 | 905 | 1 | ||||||
| 2010 | ||||||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Violent Expulsion
- Threat of Violence
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
Nearby Rotan’s Govan High School had a black football trainer in the 1950s. “The football team was behind ‘Mr. H’ even in the most hostile racial environments. One incident was in 1953 when Rotan visited Throckmorton High. Govan needed a police
escort to the stadium because of this small town’s hatred for blacks. An example of racial tension in this town was a road sign that said, ‘N—–, don’t let the sun set on you in this town.'”
“My boyhood home Throckmorton, Texas, and surrounding Throckmorton County has not had a single African American resident since the lynching of a black man for murdering a white man in the 1920s or 30’s. I lived in Throckmorton from 1944 until 1956 and still have some family left there. It was common knowledge throughout that part of Texas that African Americans were not welcome in Throckmorton County.
When we buried my brother there in 1995 several African American collegues of his came to the funeral and many of the ‘keepers of the flame’ in the town
were scandalized.” — posted to the web, 2006
Also see comments under Throckmorton County.