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Cicero, Illinois. De Land, Illinois, board of trustees members acknowledged in 2002 that the municipality had passed a sundown ordinance for African Americans decades ago. [25] Effingham, Illinois. Eldorado, Illinois. Granite City, Illinois. Pekin, Illinois, was a sundown town unwelcoming for non-whites. [26]
Vidor, Texas. Categories: Sundown towns in the United States by state. History of racism in Texas.
Sundown towns in Texas (8 P) W. Sundown towns in Wisconsin (5 P) This page was last edited on 3 June 2024, at 21:54 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
t. e. Sundown towns, also known as sunset towns, gray towns, or sundowner towns, are all- white municipalities or neighborhoods in the United States. They are considered towns that practiced or still practice a form of racial segregation by excluding non-whites via some combination of discriminatory local laws, intimidation or violence.
Vidor (/ ˈvaɪdər / VY-dər) is a city in western Orange County, Texas, United States. A city of Southeast Texas, it lies at the intersection of Interstate 10 and Farm to Market Road 105, 6 miles (9.7 km) east of Beaumont. The town is mainly a bedroom community for the nearby refining complexes in Beaumont and Port Arthur and is part of the ...
UTC−6 (Central) • Summer (DST) UTC−5 (CDT) Congressional district. 25th. Comanche County is a county located on the Edwards Plateau in Central Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 13,594. [1][2] The county seat is Comanche. [3] The county was founded in 1856 and is named for the Comanche Native American tribe.
Sundown towns in the United States. 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.
The town was officially incorporated in 1893, making it the oldest incorporated settlement in Brazoria County. [6] Alvin Morgan received a land grant from the state of Texas prior to 1891. Alvin was a sundown town in the 1930s, where practically no African Americans were allowed to live. [7]