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  2. List of sundown towns in the United States - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    Wikipedia [c] is a free-content online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and the wiki software MediaWiki.

  4. Blue laws in the United States - Wikipedia

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    [41] [42] [43] The blue laws that apply in Bergen County are state laws from which all 20 other counties in the state have opted out. [44] The county, part of the New York metropolitan area , has one of the largest concentrations of enclosed retail shopping malls of any county in the nation; five major malls lie within the county.

  5. List of University of Pennsylvania people - Wikipedia

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    Jack McCloskey (class of 1948): head coach in men's basketball at Penn 1966–1971 and then Wake Forest University [109] and Portland Trail Blazers, later general manager of the Detroit Pistons and Minnesota Timberwolves [110]

  6. First Amendment to the United States Constitution - Wikipedia

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    These laws were a response to offers to David Berkowitz to write memoirs about the murders he committed. The Supreme Court struck down a law of this type in New York as a violation of the First Amendment in the case Simon & Schuster v. Crime Victims Board (1991). [295] That statute did not prohibit publication of a memoir by a convicted criminal.

  7. Fire drill - Wikipedia

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    A fire drill is a method of practicing how a building should evacuate in the event of a fire or other emergencies. In most cases, the building's existing fire alarm system is activated and the building is evacuated by means of the nearest available exits, as if an emergency had actually occurred. Fire drill procedures may vary depending on the ...

  8. List of killings by law enforcement officers in the United ...

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    When someone lit a cigarette in her apartment building, National Guardsmen opened fired, hitting Blanding. [419] 1967-07-24: Pryor, Clifton (23) Michigan (Detroit) During the 1967 Detroit riot, Pryor, a white man, climbed onto the roof of his apartment building with some neighbors to watch the riots and look for arson. Their apartment manager ...