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Welcome to the world’s only registry of sundown towns. Just click on a state to see an alphabetical list of all the sundown towns we know about, think may been sundown towns, and have managed to get up onto the site. A sundown town is not just a place where something racist happened.
Many “sundown towns” used discriminatory housing covenants to ensure no non-white person would be allowed to purchase or rent a home, according to blackpast.org, resulting in the dramatic...
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.
Sundown towns, or grey towns, were all-white neighborhoods in the United States that used discriminatory local laws, intimidation, or violence to keep their town all-white. The term meant that...
Cultural documentarian Candacy Taylor has collected crowd-sources data showing that Pennsylvania was home to about 40 sundown towns, underscoring that these towns were not confined to the south or Midwest.
Most sundown towns expelled their black residents, or agreed not to admit any, between 1890 and 1940. Sundown suburbs developed a little later – from 1900 and 1968. Racial covenants, written agreements with white property owners, helped keep Seattle's black community confined to a ghetto.
Sundown Towns are all-white communities, neighborhoods, or counties that exclude Blacks and other minorities through the use of discriminatory laws, harassment, and threats or use of violence.
In sundown towns across the Midwest, black Americans were denied housing, persecuted, or violently evicted during a period from the 1890s to the 1940s, leaving a homogeneity that has defined...
Documents the history of towns across the United States that exclude African Americans (and other racial/ethnic groups) after sundown. Time Periods: 20th Century. Themes: African American, Reconstruction, Racism & Racial Identity. Order online.
We cannot classify an “all-white town” as a “sundown town” unless we have evidence about its racial policies. Moreover, one must use common sense and historical and sociological knowledge in this work.