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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.
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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.
At least 200 other towns in Indiana became sundown towns between 1890-1940, although there could have been more. [3] 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.
Sundown town, a town that excludes African Americans from living in it. Many towns went sundown after expelling black populations though most sundown towns did not have significant black populations to begin with. A partial listing is available at Category:Sundown towns in the United States.
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Salem, the county seat, had become a sundown town by 1898 at the latest. [17] By the 20th century the entire county was officially sundown. [18] A county history from 1916 declared that, "Washington County has for several decades boasted that no colored man or woman lived within her borders."