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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 ...
This category lists populated places in Ohio that at any point practiced a form of segregation known as a sundown town. Some of these places may be unincorporated areas or neighborhoods rather than municipalities.
The town of Howell has long been associated with the Ku Klux Klan’s presence in Michigan, thanks to the state’s former “Grand Dragon” Robert Miles, who recruited auto workers into the KKK ...
Having been homogenous until the 1990s, Beardstown presented a blank slate to new immigrants, and the emergent order across the town's 3.6 square miles was completely unsegregated by ethnicity or ...
Today, the city is home to the Sheboygan Black-American Community Outreach, which continues to advocate for peace and unity. Gary C. Klein can be reached at 920-453-5149 or gklein@gannett.com ...
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.
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