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[https://depts.washington.edu/covenants/sundown_towns.shtml by Civil Rights and Labor History Consortium / University of Washington] | [https://depts.washington.edu/covenants/sundown_towns.shtml by Civil Rights and Labor History Consortium / University of Washington] | ||
Black people were not allowed to live in many towns and suburbs in Washington state during the era before the National Fair Housing Act (1968) and some towns operated with unofficial sundown rules. African Americans might work in the community but were expected to leave in the evening. Black men would be harrassed after dark, either by law enforcement or by white residents, typically young men in cars. Kennewick was the most notorious sundown town in Washington. | Black people were not allowed to live in many towns and suburbs in Washington state during the era before the National Fair Housing Act (1968) and some towns operated with unofficial sundown rules. African Americans might work in the community but were expected to leave in the evening. Black men would be harrassed after dark, either by law enforcement or by white residents, typically young men in cars. Kennewick was the most notorious sundown town in Washington. | ||
=====The Importance of Sundown Towns===== | |||
[https://sundown.tougaloo.edu/content/sundown-introduction.pdf] | |||
ANNA IS A TOWN of about 7,000 people, including adjoining Jonesboro. | |||
The twin towns lie about 35 miles north of Cairo, in southern Illinois. In | |||
1909, in the aftermath of a horrific nearby “spectacle lynching,” Anna and | |||
Jonesboro expelled their African Americans. Both cities have been all-white | |||
ever since.1 Nearly a century later, “Anna” is still considered by its residents | |||
and by citizens of nearby towns to mean “Ain’t No Niggers Allowed,” the | |||
acronym the convenience store clerk confirmed in 2001. | |||
