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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 the harassment of non-whites.
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. They were most prevalent before the 1950s.
The town of Howell has long been associated with the Ku Klux Klan’s presence in Michigan, thanks to the state’s former “Grand Dragon” Robert Miles, who recruited auto workers into the KKK ...
“The first thing you need to know about sundown towns, and what 'Lovecraft Country' gets right, is it’s not a Southern phenomenon,” James Loewen tells Yahoo Life. “They’re all over the ...
A protest was held on June 6 in Vidor, known as a sundown town and a stronghold of the Ku Klux Klan. [91] People gathered outside the Raymond Gould Community Center to unite in protesting George Floyd's murder. Speakers included the head of the Beaumont chapter of the NAACP as well as several Vidorians.
Attorneys Crump and Gage compared the wealthy enclave and the allegations of profiling to a sundown town — a city where non-whites are discriminated against through intimidation or violence.
1870s - 1940s. Wyandotte, Michigan. African Americans were expelled from Wyandotte on multiple occasions. [4] April 13, 1873. Pollock, Louisiana. Further information: Colfax massacre. The small black population of Pollock left the town after the massacre of more than 100 blacks in nearby Colfax. November 1, 1878.
The very rumor of a "sundown ordinance" prompted then-Mayor John Bolgert earlier in 1959 to deny the existence of any such ordinance. In studying the ordinances from 1887 and 1888, that was not ...