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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.
Winifred (Gore) Loewen (mother) David F. Loewen (father) Website. uvm.edu. James William Loewen (February 6, 1942 – August 19, 2021) was an American sociologist, historian, and author. He was best known for his 1995 book, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong. A 2005 book, Sundown Towns: A Hidden ...
GNIS feature ID. 2409692 [2] Website. www.alvin-tx.gov. Alvin is a city in the U.S. state of Texas within the Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land metropolitan area and Brazoria County. As of the 2020 U.S. Census, the city population was 27,098. [5]
In Vienna, Illinois, no one talks openly about the violence that drove out Black residents 66 years ago, or about how it became a 'sundown town.’ The town is still grappling with racial tensions ...
Vidor, Texas. Vidor (/ ˈvaɪdər / VY-dər) is a city in western Orange County, Texas, United States. A city of Southeast Texas, it lies at the intersection of Interstate 10 and Farm to Market Road 105, 6 miles (9.7 km) east of Beaumont. The town is mainly a bedroom community for the nearby refining complexes in Beaumont and Port Arthur and is ...
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910, 472. FIPS code. 37-63120 [5] GNIS feature ID. 2407374 [4] Website. www.southernpines.net. Southern Pines is a town in Moore County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 12,334 as of the 2010 United States Census.