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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. They were most prevalent before the 1950s.
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.
Places in this category are unincorporated and do not have any formally organized municipal government, but rather are within the political jurisdiction of other municipalities. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Unincorporated communities in Arizona; See also Arizona
According to the 2020 United States Census, Arizona is the 14th most populous state with 7,151,502 inhabitants (as of the 2020 census) [1] and the 6th largest by land area spanning 113,623.1 square miles (294,282 km 2). [2] Arizona is divided into 15 counties and contains 91 incorporated cities and towns.
The curfew ran from 09:00 pm to 06:00 am local time (08:00 pm to 05:00 am CET) and was implemented from 17 October 2020 to last four weeks. [44] Under the rules, people in those cities could only leave their homes for essential reasons, [45] and
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However, a number of mayors throughout Arizona believed that the League was such an important part of local government that they funded the organization out of their own pockets for six years until the Supreme Court reversed its decision. An early president of the Arizona Municipal League as it was called was Mesa mayor George Nicholas Goodman. [1]