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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.
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.
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 ...
Corbin, Kentucky race riot of 1919 was a race riot in 1919 in which a white mob forced nearly all the town's 200 black residents onto a freight train out of town, and a sundown town policy until the late 20th century.
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 ...
In 1906, the legal case Taylor v. Cohn led to the Oregon Supreme Court sanctioning the right of white Americans to racially discriminate against Black people in theatres. [10] In 1918, Black soldiers from California saw a sign that read "We employ white help and cater to white trade only." Angered, the men proceeded to destroy the sign.
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 in the United States by state (23 C) Pages in category "Sundown towns in the United States" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.