Oregon
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
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1890 | 2373 | 6 | 127 | |||||
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| 1960 | 14434 | |||||||
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| 2000 | 16354 | 14580 | 250 | 154 | 412 | 981 | 602 | |
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| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Asian
Comments
Pendleton had only two black families who got along OK, but the town apparently expelled Chinese:
Another reader suggests that Pendleton%u2019s Chinese and Asian population constructed a city literally underground in order to escape the abuse of the white citizens.
A Pendleton resident writes:
%u201CI really hope you include Pendleton Oregon in the sundown town book. I recently asked a librarian about a book, or even article, about Pendleton and their underground community of Asian Americans…she said they had tried to find such a book just recently, and no such book exists. How interesting….%u201D