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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 the harassment of non-whites.
Sundown towns, also known as sunset towns, gray towns, or sundowner towns, were all- white municipalities or neighborhoods in the United States. They were towns that practice a form of racial segregation by excluding non-whites via some combination of discriminatory local laws, intimidation or violence. They were most prevalent before the 1950s.
I. Sundown towns in Illinois (9 P) Sundown towns in Indiana (15 P) Sundown towns in Iowa (1 P)
Sundown towns in the United States. This category lists populated places in the United States that at any point practiced a form of segregation known as a sundown town. Some of these places may be counties or neighborhoods rather than towns.
S. Southern Pines, North Carolina. Categories: African-American history of North Carolina. History of racism in North Carolina. Sundown towns in the United States by state. White American culture in North Carolina.
Fitzgerald, Georgia. Forsyth County, Georgia. Categories: Sundown towns in the United States by state. History of racism in Georgia (U.S. state)
Vidor, Texas. Categories: Sundown towns in the United States by state. History of racism in Texas.
S. Salem, Illinois. Sandoval, Illinois. Categories: Sundown towns in the United States by state. History of racism in Illinois. Illinois society. White American culture in Illinois.