Basic Information| Type of Place | | Independent City or Town | | Metro Area? | | Independent City or Town | | Politics c. 1860? | | | | Unions, Organized Labor? | | |
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Sundown Town Status| Confirmed Sundown Town? | | Probable | | Year of Greatest Interest | | | | Was there an ordinance? | | Don't Know | | Sign? | | Perhaps, Some Oral Evidence | | Still Sundown? | | Probably |
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Census Information | Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | | 1860 | | | | | | | | | | 1870 | | | | | | | | | | 1880 | | | | | | | | | | 1890 | | | | | | | | | | 1900 | | | | | | | | | | 1910 | | | | | | | | | | 1920 | | | | | | | | | | 1930 | | | | | | | | | | 1940 | | | | | | | | | | 1950 | | | | | | | | | | 1960 | | | | | | | | | | 1970 | | | | | | | | | | 1980 | | | | | | | | | | 1990 | | | | | | | | | | 2000 | 1,329 | 1,294 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 26 | 8 | |
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| Tell Dr. Loewen More About This Town | | |
Comments "Until at least a few years ago they had a welcome sign at the city limits that read 'Welcome to Dover:
Don't Let the Sun Set on Your Black Ass'."
-Arkansas State University professor
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3/2008 email
I heard some variation of the sentence, 'Blacks shouldn%u2019t go to Dover and definitely not after dark' more times than I can remember when I was growing up. There%u2019s been at one lynching in the town, according to oral history."
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