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A sundown town is an all-White community that shows or has shown hostility toward non-Whites. Sundown town practices may be evoked in the form of city ordinances barring people of color after dark, exclusionary covenants for housing opportunity, signage warning ethnic groups to vacate, unequal treatment by local law enforcement, and unwritten rules permitting harassment.
Sundown towns, also known as sunset towns, gray towns, or sundowner towns, were all-white municipalities or neighborhoods in the United States. They were towns that practice a form of racial segregation by excluding non-whites via some combination of discriminatory local laws, intimidation or violence.
This category lists populated places in California that at any point practiced a form of segregation known as a sundown town. Some of these places may be counties or neighborhoods rather than towns. Some of these places may be counties or neighborhoods rather than towns.
These relatively small cities — spread across midwestern swing states and far from dense metropolitan areas — all have one thing in common: They are former “sundown” towns, where threats ...
The LA Times considered four key factors in identifying its ranking of the best towns to retire in: The climate in the area; affordability; recreational opportunities; and health and wellness ...
Sundown towns in California (9 P) F. ... Sundown towns in Georgia (U.S. state) (2 P) I. Sundown towns in Illinois (9 P) Sundown towns in Indiana (14 P)
The attorney general also scored high-profile housing wins in Huntington Beach and La Cañada Flintridge, but wealthy, development-resistant towns are not the state's only barrier to more homes.
Sundown town, a town that excludes African Americans from living in it. Many towns went sundown after expelling black populations though most sundown towns did not have significant black populations to begin with. A partial listing is available at Category:Sundown towns in the United States.