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806. FIPS code. 48-71060 [2] GNIS feature ID. 1369397 [3] Sundown is a small town in Hockley County, Texas, United States. The community school district is Sundown ISD. The population was 1,283 at the 2020 census, [4] a decrease from 1,397 at the 2010 census.
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 the harassment of non-whites.
Vidor, Texas. Categories: Sundown towns in the United States by state. History of racism in Texas.
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Alvin Morgan received a land grant from the state of Texas prior to 1891. Alvin was a sundown town in the 1930s, where practically no African Americans were allowed to live. [7] In 1960, the city annexed a 100-foot-wide (30 m) 137-mile-long (220 km) stretch of land to protect Alvin from being annexed by other cities.
Sundown Independent School District is a public school district based in Sundown, Texas, United States. In addition to Sundown, the district also serves rural areas in southwestern Hockley County. Sundown ISD has three campuses - Sundown High (Grades 9-12), Sundown Junior High (Grades 6-8), and Sundown Elementary (Grades PK-5). In 2009, the ...
UTC−6 (Central) • Summer (DST) UTC−5 (CDT) Congressional district. 25th. Comanche County is a county located on the Edwards Plateau in Central Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 13,594. [1][2] The county seat is Comanche. [3] The county was founded in 1856 and is named for the Comanche Native American tribe.
268,581 sq mi (695,620 km 2) Coastline. 367 mi (591 km) Highest point. Guadalupe Peak, 8,749 feet (2,667 m) Lowest point. Gulf of Mexico, sea level. The geography of Texas is diverse and large. Occupying about 7% of the total water and land area of the U.S., [1] it is the second largest state after Alaska, and is the southernmost part of the ...