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List of 11 Sundown Towns in Texas where historically non-white people were not allowed to live or stay after dark in the USA
In this comprehensive guide, we will explore the rise and fall of sundown towns in Texas, looking at how they emerged in the Jim Crow era, how civil rights legislation led to their decline, and how their exclusionary practices continue to shape Texas communities today.
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 the harassment of non-whites.
Sundown towns in the United States by state. History of racism in Texas. Texas society. White American culture in Texas.
Historical Database of Sundown Towns. Welcome to the world’s only registry of sundown towns. Just click on a state to see an alphabetical list of all the sundown towns we know about, think may been sundown towns, and have managed to get up onto the site.
A quick look at Wikipedia shows that there are eight towns in Texas that were once a sundown town. For a full and exhaustive list, check out the History and Social Justice website.
Across the country, city neighborhoods grew more and more segregated. How Sundown Communities Were – and Are – Maintained. Sadly, the Great Migration sparked racism across the country. Whites feared black immigrants, and they established sundown towns around the country.
Sundown Towns are all-white communities, neighborhoods, or counties that exclude Blacks and other minorities through the use of discriminatory laws, harassment, and threats or use of violence.
The town of Vidor, Texas, is infamous for its legacy of racism. A bastion of the KKK. A “sundown” town, where Blacks were told to split after the sun set. In the 1990s, as a result of court-ordered desegregation of public housing projects, a few Black families dared moving in. They were soon driven out.
In a provocative, sweeping analysis of American residential patterns, Loewen uncovers the thousands of "sundown towns"—almost exclusively white towns where it was an unspoken rule that...