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A sundown town refers to a municipality or neighborhood within the United States that practices or once practiced a form of racial segregation characterized by intimidation, hostility, or violence among White people directed toward non-Whites, especially against African Americans. Typically such towns originally had a majority African American ...
Road trips for African Americans were inconvenient and in some cases dangerous because of racial segregation, racial profiling by police, the phenomenon of travelers just "disappearing" [further explanation needed] [citation needed], and the existence of numerous sundown towns. According to author Kate Kelly, "there were at least 10,000 ...
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.
Pages in category "Sundown towns in the United States" ... Sundown town * List of expulsions of African Americans; D. Darien, Connecticut; E.
Prior to the Civil Rights Movement Blackwell had a reputation as a sundown town, [8] [9] [10] having kept out African Americans through violent expulsion and the display of a sign warning them to leave town by sunset.
Rodney 'Blair' Stewart made history as the first Black council member in Brea, an Orange County suburb that had a recent reckoning over its 'sundown town' past.
A small town in the Florida Panhandle is grappling with its legacy as a “sundown town” and its history of The post Florida city has four Black residents, an unacknowledged legacy of being a ...
After an uncontrollable fire, the town was permanently damaged, and is currently a small residential area. As of 1909, Pinebluff was a sundown town, where African Americans were not allowed to live or stay overnight. [5] The Lincoln Park School and McLeod Family Rural Complex are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [6]