Illinois
Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Independent City or Town
- Metro Area
- Politics c. 1860?
- Strongly Democratic
- 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
- 1975
- Still Sundown?
- Don’t Know
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1860 | ||||||||
| 1870 | 3095 | 6Male | ||||||
| 1880 | ||||||||
| 1890 | 681 | |||||||
| 1900 | 733 | |||||||
| 1910 | ||||||||
| 1920 | ||||||||
| 1930 | 1910 | 0 | ||||||
| 1940 | ||||||||
| 1950 | ||||||||
| 1960 | 1523 | 0 | ||||||
| 1970 | ||||||||
| 1980 | ||||||||
| 1990 | 728 | |||||||
| 2000 | 806 | 1 | ||||||
| 2010 | ||||||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Threat of Violence
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
June 10, 2003, spoke with c.80-year-old local historian and his wife. Dongola had no blacks now, never had any except “Some people moved in a few years ago, but they left. I don’t know why.”
“The old wives’ tale was that there was a sign at the edge of town: ‘Don’t let the sun set on you here, nigger!'” But that sign was before my time. [Do you think it was true that Dongola had such a policy?] “Oh, here, yes!”
[Have blacks ever tried to live in Dongola?] “They moved a young lady into Dongola with two little boys,” and they stayed a school year and left. That was about 1975. Only ones. As far as he knows, they got along fine.