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2. List of sundown towns in the United States - Wikipedia

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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.

3. Sundown town - Wikipedia

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   Green Book (2018), the Academy Award winner for Best Picture, is a comedy drama about a tour of the Deep South in the 1960s by African-American classical and jazz pianist Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali), who is arrested in a Southern town for being out after sundown. In the first episode of the 2020 television series Lovecraft Country (2020) (TV ...

4. What are 'sundown towns'? Historically all-white towns in ...

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   “The first thing you need to know about sundown towns, and what 'Lovecraft Country' gets right, is it’s not a Southern phenomenon,” James Loewen tells Yahoo Life. “They’re all over the ...

5. What is a ‘sundown town’? When and where American ... - AOL

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   “Sundown towns” were an open secret of racial segregation and are part of America’s historic discrimination and racial strife. What is a ‘sundown town’? When and where American racism ...

6. Trump accused of deliberately choosing ‘sundown’ towns with ...

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   Today, the town of Howell “is a different place than it was when I was growing up in Michigan,” said Democratic congresswoman Elissa Slotkin, whose district encompasses Livingston County.

7. List of expulsions of African Americans - Wikipedia

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   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.

8. James W. Loewen - Wikipedia

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   Loewen wrote about sundown towns throughout his career, including in Lies Across America, in which he called the affluent suburb of Darien, Connecticut, a modern-day de facto sundown town. [16] Sundown Towns won the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award. It also gained excellent reviews in Publishers Weekly and Booklist. The book inspired a ...

9. Florida city has four Black residents, an unacknowledged ...

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   A small town in the Florida Panhandle is grappling with its legacy as a “sundown town” and its history of The post Florida city has four Black residents, an unacknowledged legacy of being a ...