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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.

Marinette

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
1890 11253 18
1900 16195 1
1910 14610 1
1920 13610 19
1930 13734 15
1940 14183 13
1950 14178 17
1960 13329 11
1970 12696 0
1980 11965 4
1990 11843 5
2000
2010 10,968 79
2020

Method of Exclusion

  • Unknown

Main Ethnic Group(s)

  • Unknown

Group(s) Excluded

  • Black

Comments

email 1/2008:
Having grown up in Marinette, I remember a few families living in town for generations, so the 1970 census citing 0 Blacks living in town cannot be accurate. — Marinette teacher.

email 8/2007:

One reader reports that “a cousin is married to a member of the Marinette, Wisconsin, high school football team, 1952, and I attended a game between the Marinette Marines and a team from East Chicago, Indiana.

Marinette was not in a football league so they scheduled games with many teams even though far away. When the team from East Chicago arrived it seems that many of them were African American. Nobody in town was quite prepared for this. And, Oshkosh, Green Bay and Marinette were not welcoming communities for minorities.

The game was a brutal affair. Standing behind the team bench I heard the players’ racist remarks and vows to break the leg of the star player on the East Chicago team. And, they did.

Worst thing was that the only hotel in town, The Marinette Hotel, refused to
allow the Black players to stay there. Ended up the whole team had to sleep on the gym floor at the high school using wrestling mats. Sad but true.”