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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 ...
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.
[24]: 14 It features a town that excludes Jewish people rather than Black people. According to James W. Loewen, "The anti-Nazi ideology opened more sundown suburbs to Jews than to African Americans... Gentleman's Agreement, Elia Kazan's 1948 Academy Award-winning movie [exposed] Darien, Connecticut, as an anti-Jewish sundown town." [24]: 394
Banished: How Whites Drove Blacks Out of Town in America is a 2007 documentary film about four of the U.S. cities which violently expelled African-American families in post-Reconstruction America. The film depicts incidents in Texas , Missouri , Georgia , and Indiana that occurred between 1886 and 1923.
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The very rumor of a "sundown ordinance" prompted then-Mayor John Bolgert earlier in 1959 to deny the existence of any such ordinance. In studying the ordinances from 1887 and 1888, that was not ...
After the bombing, the Wades left and very few other blacks attempted to move in, and the community remained a largely white "sundown town" well into the 1960s. [14] Since the 1970s, the black population has grown to about 30 percent, a greater percentage than in the Louisville metropolitan area as a whole, and more than double the percentage ...
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