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
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Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Very Mixed
Group(s) Excluded
- Unknown
Comments
email 1/2008:
That the town was unwelcoming to students of color, particularly those of African-American descent, at that time.
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The town currently makes many efforts to welcome students of color, new immigrants, and refugees.
From Joseph Amato and John Radzilowski, Community of Strangers (Marshall, MN: Crossings Press, 1999):
12,500 people, seat of Lyon County (p. 4) Founded as rr town, 1872.(p.11) Yankees first, many of whom left during the panic of 1892. French Canadians around WWI. Danes replaced Yankees.(p.23) Prided itself “on being Yankee and therefore thoroughly ‘American’ (that is, non-immigrant) up through WWI and beyond.”(p.24) SW State U comes to Marshall. “By 1971, a year before the first class graduated, the town had discovered the reality of just how much conflict and misunderstanding could exist between a staid town and an institution of 3,000 strangers. The college had served up bitter potioins in the form of intense anti-Vietnam War protests, an illicit drug trade, a unionizing faculty, and a hundred or so African-American students who had little sense of this place to which they had been lured.”(35)
“Newcomers from S TX, MX, Guatemala, Somalia, Ethiopia, and Laos” mostly to work at the turkey processing plant.(p.71)
– Joseph Amato and John Radzilowski, Community of Strangers (Marshall, MN: Crossings Press, 1999), 4; 11; 23; 24; 35; 71