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Green Book (2018), the Academy Award winner for Best Picture, is a comedy drama about a tour of the Deep South in the 1960s by African-American classical and jazz pianist Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali), who is arrested in a Southern town for being out after sundown.
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.
Carol Jenkins (October 19, 1947 - September 16, 1968) was an African-American woman who was murdered on September 16, 1968, by two white men in Martinsville, Indiana, a sundown town. Her murder remained unsolved for over thirty years until a tip led investigators to one of her murderers in the early 2000s.
In the Midwest and West, up to 10,000 "sundown towns" existed across the United States between 1890 and 1960, according to blackpast.org, a website that states it's “dedicated to providing ...
By the end of the 1960s, there were an estimated 10,000 sundown towns across the United States—including large suburbs such as Glendale, California (population 60,000 at the time); Levittown, New York (80,000); and Warren, Michigan (180,000). Over half the incorporated communities in Illinois were sundown towns.
One Beardstown native described a sign at the edge of town in the 1960s that threatened, "Darkies: Don't let the sun set on you." ... "The fact that it was a sundown town with no preexisting ...
When I was growing up near Corbin, Ky., in the 80s, the little town was still grappling with a shameful event that happened decades earlier
Sundown town, a town that excludes African Americans from living in it. Many towns went sundown after expelling black populations though most sundown towns did not have significant black populations to begin with. A partial listing is available at Category:Sundown towns in the United States.