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Pages in category "Sundown towns in Texas" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Alba, Texas;
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.
Vidor had a reputation as a "sundown town", where African Americans are not allowed after sunset. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] In 1993, after district court judge William Wayne Justice ordered that 36 counties in East Texas , including Vidor, desegregate public housing by making some units available for minorities, the Ku Klux Klan held a march in the ...
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.
Alba (/ ˈ æ l b ə / AL-bə) is a town located at the intersection of U.S. Highway 69 and Farm To Market Road 17 on the western edge of Wood County, Texas, United States, south of Lake Fork and approximately ten miles west of Quitman. The population was 473 in the 2020 U.S. Census. [4]
All 270,000 square miles of Texas have plenty of travel appeal, to be sure. However, between bustling cities, rodeo towns, and remote Gulf beaches, there is one place where every person traveling ...
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 ...
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