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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.
Category: Sundown towns in the United States by state. 1 language. ... Sundown towns in Illinois (9 P) Sundown towns in Indiana (14 P) Sundown towns in Iowa (2 P) K.
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 ...
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.
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 Center Square) – Several new laws go into effect Jan. 1 that affect Illinois drivers. Among the nearly 300 new laws going into effect are updates to drivers’ education, including ...