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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.
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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.
In the Midwest and West, up to 10,000 "sundown towns" existed across the United States between 1890 and 1960, according to blackpast.org, ... According to History and Justice, a website inspired ...
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 2021, Trump held a rally in Cullman, Alabama, a town that once advertised “No Blacks and No Indians” and warned “n*****, don’t the let the sun go down on your head” for decades.
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What is now Arab was established by Stephen Tuttle Thompson in the 1840s, and was originally known as "Thompson's Village". [8] The current name of the town was an unintentional misspelling by the United States Postal Service in 1882 of the city's intended name, taken from Arad Thompson, the son of the town founder, who had applied for a post office that year.