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Map of the USA showing borders of states and counties. Adapted by Wapcaplet from a public-domain map courtesy of the U.S. Census Bureau website. Date: 25 September 2006: Source: en:File:Map of USA with county outlines.png: Author
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.
This category lists populated places in California that at any point practiced a form of segregation known as a sundown town. Some of these places may be counties or neighborhoods rather than towns. Some of these places may be counties or neighborhoods rather than towns.
Sundown towns were all-white communities that excluded Black people and others through the use of discriminatory laws, harassment and threats with violent overtones. The name derives from the many ...
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Read more:Southern California wildfires: Maps, evacuations, shelters The Bridge fire, the largest of the four , was nearing 50,000 acres in size Wednesday afternoon, and was 0% contained. It began ...
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