Editing Pollock, Louisiana (section)

==History==
The town proper that sprang up in 1892 around a sawmill was named in honor of the manager of the Big Creek Sawmill and Lumber Company, Captain James W. Pollock.<ref>{{Cite web |title=History of Pollock |url=http://www.pollockla.us/index.asp?Type=B_PR&SEC={3E978751-E262-4BC6-824A-7CBB558030B4}&DE={85E5CD88-B3C3-4089-A497-8B5BBFDBF1CA} |access-date=May 25, 2011 |website=Town of Pollock, Louisiana}}</ref>

Pollock was for many years a [[sundown town]], a community that did not allow black people to be there after sundown.<ref name="sundown.tougaloo.edu-1160">{{Cite web |title=Showing Pollock in LA... |url=https://sundown.tougaloo.edu/sundowntownsshow.php?id=1160 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180623054855/https://sundown.tougaloo.edu/sundowntownsshow.php?id=1160 |archive-date=June 23, 2018 |website=sundown.tougaloo.edu}}</ref> Historian [[Herbert Aptheker]] reported a sign "Niggers stay out of Pollock"<ref name="sundown.tougaloo.edu-1160" /> at the town's boundary during World War II when he commanded a group of black soldiers nearby.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Carlson |first=Peter |date=February 20, 2006 |title=When Signs Said 'Get Out' in 'Sundown Towns,' Racism in the Rearview Mirror |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2006/02/21/when-signs-said-get-out-span-classbankheadin-sundown-towns-racism-in-the-rearview-mirrorspan/0e80ab6c-51a7-4412-a320-168315ced22b/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190215050609/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2006/02/21/when-signs-said-get-out-span-classbankheadin-sundown-towns-racism-in-the-rearview-mirrorspan/0e80ab6c-51a7-4412-a320-168315ced22b/ |archive-date=2019-02-15 |access-date=2024-04-04 |work=[[The Washington Post]]}}</ref> The town's official history notes "the few individuals of African descent" living in the Pollock area left soon after the [[Colfax massacre]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=History of Pollock |url=https://www.pollockla.us/index.asp?SEC=3E978751-E262-4BC6-824A-7CBB558030B4&Type=B_PR}}</ref> The Louisiana Almanac reported that as late as 1990, Pollock still had no black residents.<ref>{{Cite tweet |number=1096145801292775426 |user=jbenton |title=I thought I remembered this from when I was a kid, and thanks to the @internetarchive I now have proof: At least in…<!-- full text of tweet that Twitter returned to the bot (excluding links) added by TweetCiteBot. This may be better truncated or may need expanding (TW limits responses to 140 characters) or case changes. --> |date=February 14, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |year=1992 |title=Louisiana almanac, 1992-93 |url=https://archive.org/details/louisianaalmanac00milb}}</ref>