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Emelle is a town in Sumter County, Alabama, United States. It was named after the daughters of the man who donated the land for the town. The town was started in the 19th century but not incorporated until 1981. The daughters of the man who donated were named Emma Dial and Ella Dial, so he combined the two names to create Emelle.
The racial makeup of the town was 82.2% Black, 16.3% White and 1.4% from two or more races. As of the census [ 6 ] of 2000, there were 220 people, 87 households, and 58 families living in the town. The population density was 128.3 inhabitants per square mile (49.5/km 2 ).
Eva is a town in Morgan County, Alabama, United States, and is included in the Decatur Metropolitan Area and the Huntsville-Decatur Combined Statistical Area. As of the 2020 census , the population of the town was 589, [ 3 ] up from 519 in 2010.
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A Black woman transformed by leaving a virtually all-white Alabama hometown where new ideas about race and justice run up against Old South traditions, Dunston has led regular protests since ...
Every day, hundreds of news stories may pass through your screen -- but one particularly strange story from 2006 has stood the test of time. Residents of a neighborhood in Mobile, Alabama, claimed ...
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.
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