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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.
[14] April 16, 1903 Joplin, Missouri: White residents drove out Joplin's black residents following the lynching of a black transient for the murder of a white policeman. [15] July 9, 1903 Sour Lake, Texas: A mob of 500 white men opened fire on blacks and chased them out of Sour Lake after a brakeman was shot dead by a black man. [16]
[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
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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.
The nadir of American race relations was the period in African-American history and the history of the United States from the end of Reconstruction in 1877 through the early 20th century, when racism in the country, and particularly anti-black racism, was more open and pronounced than it had ever been during any other period in the nation's history.