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James W. Loewen (1942-2021)

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Green Bay

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 4666 29
1880 7404 69
1890 9069 44
1900 18684 33
1910 25236 45
1920 31017 32
1930 37415 21
1940 46235 10
1950 52735 17
1960 62888 18
1970 87809 65
1980 87899 221
1990 96466 453 127
2000 102,313 1,407 433
2010 104,057 4,952
2020

Method of Exclusion

  • Unknown

Main Ethnic Group(s)

  • Unknown

Group(s) Excluded

  • Black

Comments

Coach Gene “Ronzani had shown some courage in the pre-season by signing African Americans Jim Thomas and Jim Clark to Packer contracts, but he took the easy way out” and cut them. “After watching his team get its collective butt whipped on several occasions and attributing their poor showing to the glaring fact that the Packers were one of the two teams in the 13-team league without a player of African ancestry (the other being the Washington Redskins), the coach picked Bob Mann” off waivers just before the home finale in 1950.
Bob Mann played 1950-54.
[Larry Names, The History of the Green Bay Packers, IV, The Shameful Years (Wautoma: Angel Press, 1995), 44.]

Green Bay had a near draft riot, mostly of Belgians, around Nov. 10, 1862. Belgians and Irish opposed the draft, so two companies of troops were sent to Ft. Howard.
[Deborah Martin, History of Brown County, WI (Chicago: S. J. Clarke, 1913), 205 and 213.]

According to a local librarian:
In about 1970, a black woman in a Green Bay supermarket gets asked by a well-meaning white woman, “Oh, and which Packer wife are you?” She happened not to be, but replied, “I’m Mrs. Bart Starr!”

1969-70, Green Bay had 13 blacks.
[Ploski and Kaiser, ed., The Negro Almanac (Bellwether, 19), 628.]