Basic Information
- Type of Place
- CDP, Unincorporated Borough, or MCD
- Metro Area
- Politics c. 1860?
- Strongly Democratic
- 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
- Still Sundown?
- Probably
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1960 | 0 | |||||||
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| 1990 | 0 | |||||||
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| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Violent Expulsion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
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…” Interestingly, Wolf Lake was also probably sundown.
Wolf Lake precinct has no blacks, 2000. Not a town but an MCD, in census.
Confirmed via classmates.com, January 27, 2004:
Billy Rhodes 1953 1/26/2004 To: Jim Loewen (4) African Americans in Wolf Lake
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 and i lived there till i was nineteen and dont know of a black ever living there bill rhodes
Listed as “violent expulsion” because of nearby Anna’s in 1909.