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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.
Printable version; In other projects ... Pages in category "Sundown towns in Illinois" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. ... Granite City ...
Printable version; In other projects ... Sundown towns in Georgia (U.S. state) (2 P) I. Sundown towns in Illinois (9 P)
Sheboygan at one time was thought to have sundown laws that were prevalent in the 1880s to 1960s. ... up to 10,000 "sundown towns" existed across the United States between 1890 and 1960, ...
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 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.
African Americans have been violently expelled from at least 50 towns, cities, and counties in the United States. Most of these expulsions occurred in the 60 years following the American Civil War but continued until 1954. The justifications for the expulsions varied but often involved a crime committed by White Americans, labor-related issues ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 25 December 2024. "Cities in Illinois" redirects here. For unincorporated communities, see List of unincorporated communities in Illinois. For CDPs, see List of census-designated places in Illinois. Map of the United States with Illinois highlighted Illinois is a state located in the Midwestern United ...