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2. List of sundown towns in the United States - Wikipedia

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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.

3. Category:Sundown towns in Illinois - Wikipedia

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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.

4. Sundown town - Wikipedia

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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.

5. What are 'sundown towns'? Historically all-white towns in ...

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   “The first thing you need to know about sundown towns, and what 'Lovecraft Country' gets right, is it’s not a Southern phenomenon,” James Loewen tells Yahoo Life. “They’re all over the ...

6. Sheboygan was thought to have sundown laws that urged Black ...

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   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 ...

7. Category : Sundown towns in the United States by state

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   Sundown towns in Illinois (9 P) Sundown towns in Indiana (14 P) Sundown towns in Iowa (2 P) K. Sundown towns in Kansas (11 P) Sundown towns in Kentucky (6 P) M.

8. List of expulsions of African Americans - Wikipedia

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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.

9. 5 American cities that require you to own a gun - AOL

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   4. Gun Barrel City, Texas. Gun Barrel got its fitting name as a safe haven for outlaws like Bonnie and Clyde during the Prohibition era. The city's motto is "We shoot straight with you." 5. Virgin ...