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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 counties [2] and sundown suburbs were created as well. While the number of sundown towns in the United States decreased following the end of the civil rights movement in 1968, some commentators hold that certain 21st-century practices perpetuate a modified version of the sundown town.
Sundown towns in Georgia (U.S. state) (2 P) I. Sundown towns in Illinois (9 P) Sundown towns in Indiana (14 P) Sundown towns in Iowa (2 P) K. Sundown towns in Kansas ...
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 ...
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This category lists populated places in the United States that at any point practiced a form of segregation known as a sundown town. Some of these places may be counties or neighborhoods rather than towns.
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The article does not substantiate the claim that any sundown towns still exist today. There are no examples given of purported sundown towns existing in the 21st century. There are three references in the article that allege a connection between the practice as it existed decades ago and unspecified exclusionary practices today.