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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 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.
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The article does not substantiate the claim that any sundown towns still exist today. There are no examples given of purported sundown towns existing in the 21st century. There are three references in the article that allege a connection between the practice as it existed decades ago and unspecified exclusionary practices today.
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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.