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 [https://www.propublica.org/article/sundown-towns-illinois-history by Logan Jaffe 21/2/20 PROPUBLICA]
   I was in Springfield this week to talk about my reporting in Anna, Illinois, and sundown towns like Anna. My talk was held at the Springfield public library — which, I must point out, is officially named Lincoln Library, The Public Library of Springfield, Illinois. It was hosted by the Sangamon County Historical Society in partnership with the Springfield and Central Illinois African American History Museum, and, between those two organizations, the room was packed!
+=====Sundown towns : a hidden dimension of American racism / James W. Loewen.=====
+[https://lawcat.berkeley.edu/record/215868?ln=en by UC Berkeley Law Library Catalog]
+ Loewen (emeritus, sociology, U. of Vermont) exposes the history and persistence of "sundown towns," so-named for the signs often found at their corporate limits warning African Americans and other minorities not to be found in the town after dusk. He historically situates the rise of the sundown town movement in the years following the Civil War; describes the mechanisms of violence, threats, law, and policy that were used to force minorities out of Northern and Western towns into the big cities; and charts the continued existence of such communities.

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