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James W. Loewen (1942-2021)

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Kaukauna

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?
Surely Not

Census Information

The available census data from 1860 to the present
Total White Black Asian Native Hispanic Other BHshld
1860
1870
1880
1890 4667 2
1900 5115 3
1910 4717 14
1920 5951 4
1930 6581 3
1940 7382 0
1950 8337 1
1960 10096 0
1970 11292 3
1980 11310 4
1990 11982 7
2000 12983 35
2010 15462 199
2020

Method of Exclusion

  • Unknown

Main Ethnic Group(s)

  • Unknown

Group(s) Excluded

  • Black

Comments

email 9/2007
No,Kaukauna was not a sundown town. There just wasn’t any negros who wanted to live there. I will make one exception–there was one who lived in Kaukauna in a tin shack next to the ball diamond. His name was Nigger Cook. At least that was what everyone called him and he was well liked by all who came in contact with him.
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