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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.
“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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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Until as late as the 1960s, Glendale was a sundown town. Nonwhites were required to leave city limits by a certain time each day or risk arrest and possible violence. [ 37 ] In the 1930s, Glendale and Burbank prevented the Civilian Conservation Corps from stationing African American workers in a local park, citing sundown town ordinances that ...