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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.

Stevens Point

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?
Probable
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 4449 3
1890 7896 1
1900 9524 0
1910 8692 1
1920 11371 0
1930 13623 0
1940 15777 0
1950 16564 4
1960 17837 4
1970 23479 24
1980 22970 88
1990 23006 118
2000
2010 26717 408
2020

Method of Exclusion

  • Unknown

Main Ethnic Group(s)

  • Unknown

Group(s) Excluded

  • Black

Comments

email 2/2008 skotti1968@yahoo.com

Racism had been a long standing problem in Stevens Point. All African Americans who were in Stevens Point in the late 1960s were for the most part with UWSP. Some were faculty members and a handful of others were students. There were and still are very few African Americans in central Wisconsin. The 7th Congressional District, which contains cities like Marshfield, Wisconsin Rapids, Wausau and Stevens Point, was in 1960 the whitest in the entire United States.