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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.
However, as sociologist James W. Loewen wrote in his 2005 book, Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism, it is impossible to count precisely the number of sundown towns at any given time because most towns have not kept records of the ordinances or signs that marked the town's sundown status. He further noted that hundreds of ...
Civil rights groups and city leaders have worked over decades to recover their communities from the “sundown” label, so named because of warnings to non-white people to stay off the streets ...
Potomac was incorporated as a town in 1908. [citation needed] In 1928, the town had 2,355 residents. [citation needed] The Town of Potomac was annexed by the independent city of Alexandria in 1930. Today, the Town of Potomac Historic District in Alexandria designates this historic portion of the city, and includes 1,840 acres (7.4 km 2) and 690 ...
"The two platforms". From a series of racist posters attacking Radical Republican supporters of Black suffrage, issued during the 1866 Pennsylvania gubernatorial race.The poster specifically characterizes Democratic candidate Hiester Clymer's platform as "for the White Man," represented here by the idealized head of a young White man (Clymer ran on a platform of white supremacy).
Old Town Alexandria Vowell-Smith House in 2020 Signs hang from the lamp posts of Old Town along King Street. Located just minutes from Washington, D.C., [22] Old Town is situated in the eastern and southeastern area of the city along the Potomac River.
Woodbridge is a census-designated place (CDP) in Prince William County, Virginia, United States, located 20 miles (32 km) south of Washington, D.C. [3] Bounded by the Occoquan and Potomac rivers, Woodbridge had 44,668 residents at the 2020 census.
Chimney Rock — a tiny tourist town of 140 people just east of Asheville — was reduced to nothing more than mounds of brown sludge and washed-away roadways that hampered rescue efforts.