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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 the harassment of non-whites.
Vidor (/ ˈvaɪdər / VY-dər) is a city in western Orange County, Texas, United States. A city of Southeast Texas, it lies at the intersection of Interstate 10 and Farm to Market Road 105, 6 miles (9.7 km) east of Beaumont. The town is mainly a bedroom community for the nearby refining complexes in Beaumont and Port Arthur and is part of the ...
Vidor, Texas. Categories: Sundown towns in the United States by state. History of racism in Texas.
t. e. Sundown towns, also known as sunset towns, gray towns, or sundowner towns, are all- white municipalities or neighborhoods in the United States. They are considered towns that practiced or still practice a form of racial segregation by excluding non-whites via some combination of discriminatory local laws, intimidation or violence.
Comanche County was a sundown town, and in 1886 the communities of Bibb, De Leon, Fleming, Snipe Springs, and Whittville had signage reading, "No negroes allowed in this town." [19] According to a 1953 study, the county took pride in and publicized its all-white population. [17]
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The town was officially incorporated in 1893, making it the oldest incorporated settlement in Brazoria County. [6] 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]
Lake Worth, a 2.5-square-mile city incorporated in 1949 and originally called Lake Worth Village, lies to the east of the lake that it’s named after. The Tarrant County suburb houses a small ...