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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.
e. 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)
By the end of the 1960s, there were an estimated 10,000 sundown towns across the United States—including large suburbs such as Glendale, California (population 60,000 at the time); Levittown, New York (80,000); and Warren, Michigan (180,000). Over half the incorporated communities in Illinois were sundown towns.
Category. : 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.
The East St. Louis riots or East St. Louis massacres, of late May and July 1–3, 1917, were an outbreak of labor- and race-related violence by whites that caused the death of 40–250 black people and about $400,000 (over $8 million, in 2017 US dollars) in property damage. An estimated 6,000 black people were left homeless. May 1918 Erwin ...
A village within the Lincoln National Forest, Cloudcroft's 8,600-foot elevation, which makes for mild summers, attract visitors from West Texas and New Mexico. Cloudcroft's history dates back to ...
Comanche County was a sundown town, and in 1886 the communities of Bibb, De Leon, Fleming, Snipe Springs, and Whittville had signage reading, "No negroes allowed in this town." [ 19 ] According to a 1953 study, the county took pride in and publicized its all-white population.