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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.
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. [3] [4] Some of these modern practices include racial profiling by local police and sheriff's departments, vandalism of public art ...
Donald Trump appears at a campaign event in La Crosse, Wisconsin, on August 29, among several recent campaign stops in midwestern towns with reputations as former ‘sundown’ towns (AFP via ...
The former mayor of Greensburg, Gary Herbert, denied the race riot happened and that the Black community had been driven out of town when speaking to reporters in 2007. [ 3 ] [ 8 ] In 2017, The Greensburg Daily News published a story about the history of the 1907 riots which included extensive quotes from newspapers at the time of the riot.
The very rumor of a "sundown ordinance" prompted then-Mayor John Bolgert earlier in 1959 to deny the existence of any such ordinance. In studying the ordinances from 1887 and 1888, that was not ...
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The small black population of Pollock left the town after the massacre of more than 100 blacks in nearby Colfax. November 1, 1878 Celina, Tennessee: Celina's black population left on November 1, 1878, after being subject to a series of violent actions over the course of several months. [5] 1886 Comanche County, Texas
I didn't look through all the versions but in James Loewen's book he identifies Tarzana as a Sundown town. This information helps explain the current racial demographics in the city, and ought to be included in the article.--Rockero 17:07, 9 November 2005 (UTC) I'd bet it was a restrictive covenant town as much as a Sundown town.