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[https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/sundown-towns/ by ZINN EDUCATION PROJECT] | [https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/sundown-towns/ by ZINN EDUCATION PROJECT] | ||
“Don’t let the sun go down on you in this town.” We equate these words with the Jim Crow South but, in a sweeping analysis of American residential patterns, award-winning and bestselling author James W. Loewen demonstrates that strict racial exclusion was the norm in towns and villages across the United States, from sea to shining sea, for much of the twentieth century. | “Don’t let the sun go down on you in this town.” We equate these words with the Jim Crow South but, in a sweeping analysis of American residential patterns, award-winning and bestselling author James W. Loewen demonstrates that strict racial exclusion was the norm in towns and villages across the United States, from sea to shining sea, for much of the twentieth century. | ||
=====Sundown Towns===== | |||
[https://justice.tougaloo.edu/sundown-towns/ by HISTORY & SOCIAL JUSTICE] | |||
From Maine to California, thousands of communities kept out African Americans (or sometimes Chinese Americans, Jewish Americans, etc.) by force, law, or custom. These communities are sometimes called “sundown towns” because some of them posted signs at their city limits reading, typically, “Nigger, Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On You In. | |||
