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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 a sundown town in Indiana.Her murder remained unsolved for over thirty years until a tip led investigators to one of her murderers in the early 2000s.
That year, the Indianapolis Star reported that Martinsville still had a reputation among African Americans as a sundown town. [19] Many Martinsville residents dispute the reputation for racism and prejudice pointing out an annual award for service to the community named after a beloved African American citizen, Albert Merritt, who had a club ...
Pages in category "Sundown towns in Indiana" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. ... Martinsville, Indiana; Muncie, Indiana; O.
“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 ...
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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.
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James Crawford, who had served the community of Martinsville as justice of the peace and built the first brick church in the town, had owned the property where the house was built since 1837; he was a "wheelhorse" who helped lead the local Whig Party into competitiveness against the majority Democratic Party of Morgan County. [4]