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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.
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These relatively small cities — spread across midwestern swing states and far from dense metropolitan areas — all have one thing in common: They are former “sundown” towns, where threats ...
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.
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Arab was a sundown town, with a sign warning Blacks not to stay in Arab after dark [11] and, historically, even barring them during the day. [12] Ku Klux Klan material was disseminated in Arab in 2014 and 2015. [13]
From the 1890s until the 1950s, Cullman was a sundown town, where African Americans were not allowed to live. [12] [13] [14] Tom Drake, a former Alabama state legislator and Speaker of the Alabama House of Representatives, stated that "there used to be signs on