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Sundown counties [2] and sundown suburbs were created as well. While the number of sundown towns in the United States decreased following the end of the civil rights movement in 1968, some commentators hold that certain 21st-century practices perpetuate a modified version of the sundown town.
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.
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 the railroad track, at the county line and all that.
In the Midwest and West, up to 10,000 "sundown towns" existed across the United States between 1890 and 1960, according to blackpast.org, a website that states it's “dedicated to providing ...
Darien was a sundown town – a town that used unwritten rules to prevent African Americans and Jewish people from remaining overnight. [24] [25] [26] Laura Z. Hobson's bestselling 1947 novel Gentleman's Agreement was set in Darien to highlight American anti-Semitism via an unwritten covenant that prohibited real estate sales to Jews.
Throughout the 19th century, Waverly was a sundown town, where African Americans were not allowed to live. [11] In an 1884 history of the area, an anonymous author wrote that "Waverly's not having a single colored resident is a rare mark of distinction for a town of its size" and that Waverly had never had "a Negro or mulatto resident". [6]
Kennewick, WA prided itself on being “lily white,” says Tri-Cities history professor. ‘Worse than the South.’ Remnants of housing discrimination linger in Eastern WA
Trump accused of deliberately choosing ‘sundown’ towns with racist histories for his rallies. ... “You got a presidential candidate for the GOP doing a sundown town tour around the country ...