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Sundown counties [2] and sundown suburbs were created as well. While the number of sundown towns in the United States decreased following the end of the civil rights movement in 1968, some commentators hold that certain 21st-century practices perpetuate a modified version of the sundown town.
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.
Sundown towns in the United States by state (23 C) Pages in category "Sundown towns in the United States" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
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This category lists populated places in Kentucky that at any point practiced a form of segregation known as a sundown town. Some of these places may be unincorporated areas or neighborhoods rather than cities.
Sundown town, all-white municipalities that prohibit black people from being in the town after sunset Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Sundown .
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