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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.
Sundown Towns won the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award. It also gained excellent reviews in Publishers Weekly and Booklist. The book inspired a nationwide online initiative to monitor and list sundown towns across the USA. [17] A review in The Washington Post argued that even though Loewen dedicated an entire chapter to research ...
Last year, Trump — while at the center of several criminal and civil investigations and alleging his political persecution by federal law enforcement — held his first 2024 campaign rally in ...
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 ...
When I was growing up near Corbin, Ky., in the 80s, the little town was still grappling with a shameful event that happened decades earlier Memories From the South: Growing Up in a ‘Sundown Town ...
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.
Sundown towns in the United States by state (23 C) Pages in category "Sundown towns in the United States" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.