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Pages in category "Sundown towns in Illinois" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Anna, Illinois; C.
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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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.
Sundown towns were all-white communities that excluded Black people and others through the use of discriminatory laws, harassment and threats with violent overtones. The name derives from the many ...
Administrative divisions of Illinois; List of census-designated places in Illinois; List of cities in Illinois; List of Illinois townships; List of towns and villages in Illinois; List of counties in Illinois; List of precincts in Illinois
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The Manhattan Beach City Council passed ordinance 263, claiming eminent domain for a public park, in order to take properties owned by black residents and eliminate the African American resort, Bruce's Beach. [22] 1954 Vienna, Illinois: White residents burned down all the black homes of Vienna and nearby areas outside city limits.