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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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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 ...
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 ...
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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.
Two Texas cities, Marble Falls and Fredericksburg, made the list of coziest winter towns in America for a magical getaway. Marble Falls, at No. 40, is one of the country’s coziest winter towns.