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Find out if your town or county was a sundown town, a place that was "all white" on purpose, by selecting a state from the map. Learn about the history, definition, and consequences of sundown towns and how to confirm or report them.
A sundown town is a community that practices or practiced racial segregation by excluding non-whites. This web page provides a map and a list of sundown towns by state, with historical and legal background information.
A database of sundown towns, communities that excluded people of color on purpose, created by James W. Loewen and his colleagues. Explore maps, tables, and information about historical and current sundown towns in the U.S.
A database contributed by people across the nation underlies these maps and the tables you can generate.
Explore the world's only registry of sundown towns, communities that were "all white" on purpose. Click on a state to see an alphabetical list of sundown towns and their histories.
Learn about sundown towns, places in the U.S. that excluded nonwhite people, especially African Americans, from living there after dark. Find out how they were created, enforced, and declined over time, and how they affected the civil rights movement.
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.
Learn about the history and impact of sundown towns, all-white communities that excluded Blacks and other minorities in the US. Find out how they used signs, covenants, violence, and discrimination to enforce racial segregation.
Learn about the history and impact of sundown towns, which excluded African Americans and other racial/ethnic groups from many communities across the US. Explore the book by James Loewen, the map of sundown towns, and the related themes and topics.
Learn about the history and distribution of sundown towns, communities that excluded racial or ethnic groups, through an interactive map built by Mapbox. Explore the data, filter by state, and see the red flag icons for towns of special interest.