Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Download QR code; Print/export ... Sundown towns in Illinois (9 P) ... Category: Sundown towns in the United States by state.
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 counties [2] and sundown suburbs were created as well. While sundown laws became de jure illegal following the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 , some commentators hold that certain 21st-century practices perpetuate a modified version of the sundown town.
In the Midwest and West, up to 10,000 "sundown towns" existed across the United States between 1890 and 1960, according to blackpast.org, a website that states it's “dedicated to providing ...
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Help. Pages in category "Sundown towns in Illinois" The following 9 pages are in this category ...
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
Pinckneyville became sundown around 1928; the extant story in Pinckneyville is that a white woman was raped by a black man, so the white leadership of the town loaded the black population of the town on a bus, drove them out of town, and left them in East St. Louis; a black man, probably the alleged rapist, was lynched at the town square.
(The Center Square) – Whether Illinois should be enjoined from enforcing the state’s gun and magazine ban starting Monday is now up to a federal appeals court. Illinois enacted the Protect ...