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Pages in category "Sundown towns in Indiana" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Aurora ...
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.
Category: Sundown towns in the United States by state. 1 language. ... Sundown towns in Indiana (14 P) Sundown towns in Iowa (2 P) K. Sundown towns in Kansas (11 P)
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Sundown towns, also known as sunset towns, gray towns, or sundowner towns, were all-white municipalities or neighborhoods in the United States. They were towns that practice a form of racial segregation by excluding non-whites via some combination of discriminatory local laws, intimidation or violence.
These relatively small cities — spread across midwestern swing states and far from dense metropolitan areas — all have one thing in common: They are former “sundown” towns, where threats ...
The town of Howell was platted in 1885 along the Louisville and Nashville Railroad and was named after Lee Howell, the local L&N freight agent. An L&N rail yard at Howell was completed in 1889. Most residents worked for the L&N. [1] [2] As of 1904, the town was a sundown town, where African Americans were not allowed to live. [3]
The Village at Winona encompasses 20 acres in downtown Winona Lake, which Travel + Leisure lists among the best U.S. small towns for families and HGTV named one of the most charming small towns in ...