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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sundown_towns_in_the_United_States by WIKIPEDIA] | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sundown_towns_in_the_United_States by WIKIPEDIA] | ||
A sundown town is a municipality or neighborhood within the United States that practices or once practiced a form of racial segregation characterized by intimidation, hostility, or violence among White people directed toward non-Whites, especially against African Americans. The term "sundown town" derives from the practice of White towns then erecting signage alerting non-Whites to vacate the area before sundown. | A sundown town is a municipality or neighborhood within the United States that practices or once practiced a form of racial segregation characterized by intimidation, hostility, or violence among White people directed toward non-Whites, especially against African Americans. The term "sundown town" derives from the practice of White towns then erecting signage alerting non-Whites to vacate the area before sundown. | ||
=====Sundown Towns===== | |||
[https://www.prrac.org/newsletters/novdec2005.pdf by PRRAC] | |||
Between 1890 and 1968, thousands | |||
of towns across the United States drove | |||
out their black populations or took steps | |||
to forbid African Americans from living in them. Thus were created “sundown towns,” so named because many | |||
marked their city limits with signs typically reading, “Nigger, Don’t Let The | |||
Sun Go Down On You In | |||
