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James W. Loewen (1942-2021)

We mourn the loss of our friend and colleague and remain committed to the work he began.

Elkhorn

Wisconsin

Basic Information

Type of Place
Independent City or Town
Metro Area
Politics c. 1860?
Don’t Know
Unions, Organized Labor?
Don’t Know

Sundown Town Status

Sundown Town in the Past?
Possible
Was there an ordinance?
Don't Know
Sign?
Don’t Know
Year of Greatest Interest
Still Sundown?
Probably Not, Although Still Very Few Black People

Census Information

The available census data from 1860 to the present
Total White Black Asian Native Hispanic Other BHshld
1860
1870
1880
1890
1900
1910
1920
1930
1940
1950 2935 0
1960 3586 0
1970 3992 2
1980 4605 6
1990 5337 5
2000 7305 34
2010 10084 168
2020

Method of Exclusion

  • Unknown

Main Ethnic Group(s)

  • Unknown

Group(s) Excluded

  • Black

Comments

according to Cynthia Stokes Brown’s father. I emailed her for details on April 15, 2002.
Also, sundown, “notorious,” according to Barbara Trader, February 21, 2005, now of DC, who lived in tiny East Troy. Black entertainers had to be put up elsewhere in the ’50s and ’60s. There is a small black community near Lake Geneva, where blacks lived who worked there. btrader@easterseals.com
Mar 09 2005 “Barbara Trader”

According to a current resident, “An old-timer who lives across the street from me once mentioned something about how blacks weren’t allowed out after dark. Every once in a while a black student or person would show up but they never lasted very long.”

Email from a former resident: “My father said he remembers when he was in high school (he graduated in 1941) that there was a sign on Hwy 67 on the south side of town that said ‘N****, don’t let the sund go down on you in this town.'”