• Sundown towns, also known as sunset towns, gray towns, or sundowner towns, were all-white municipalities or neighborhoods in the United States. They were...
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    A sundown town refers to a municipality or neighborhood within the United States that practices or once practiced a form of racial segregation characterized...
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  • The Town That Dreaded Sundown may refer to: The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976 film), a horror film loosely based on the 1946 Texarkana Moonlight Murders...
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  • The Town That Dreaded Sundown is a 2014 American slasher film and serves as a metafictional sequel to the 1976 film of the same name. Directed by Alfonso...
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    Minden, Nevada (category Sundown towns in Nevada)
    Indian tribe were required to leave town by 6:30pm or face jail or fine. Douglas County fully repealed its sundown ordinance in the mid-1970s. In 2021...
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  • Look up sundown in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sundown is a synonym for sunset. Sundown may also refer to: Sundown, Queensland, a locality in the...
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  • Music's Adeem the Artist Satirizes Jason Aldean's 'Small Town' With a Biting Parody Song, 'Sundown Town'". Variety. Retrieved July 20, 2023. Macke, Johnni (July...
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    Erwin, Tennessee (category Sundown towns in Tennessee)
    century, Erwin was considered a sundown town. The "Erwin Expulsion of 1918," as it has been called, led to the town becoming known as "the place where...
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    African-Americans in the county, and earned Paragould the designation of a sundown town. Black children were not allowed to participate in any form of public...
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    Wrong. A 2005 book, Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism, galvanized a national effort to develop a list of sundown towns. Loewen was born...
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    Elwood, Indiana (category Sundown towns in Indiana)
    become a sundown town, prohibiting Black people from residing within the town. In 1897, when a number of Black families attempted to settle in the town and...
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    Gulfport, Florida (category Sundown towns in Florida)
    sitting on the town's council. Gulfport was a sundown town into the 1950s. An informal policy prohibited African Americans from staying within town limits after...
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  • Sundown Heaven Town is the thirteenth studio album by American country music artist Tim McGraw. It was released on September 16, 2014 by Big Machine Records...
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  • The Town That Dreaded Sundown is a 1976 American thriller horror film directed and produced by Charles B. Pierce, and written by Earl E. Smith. The film...
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    Vidor, Texas (category Sundown towns in Texas)
    has been described as a sundown town, a term used to describe racially homogeneous communities, specifically all-white towns, that have shown hostility...
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  • "Law of Averages" Staples Blume Reske Kenny Beats Reske[a] 2:19 3. "Sundown Town" Staples Xavier Herrera Giorgio Ligeon Blume Kenny Beats 2:31 4. "The...
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    Glendale, California (category Sundown towns in California)
    flown by Charles Lindbergh. Until as late as the 1960s, Glendale was a sundown town. Nonwhites were required to leave city limits by a certain time each...
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  • in the United States Racism in the United States Second-class citizen Sundown town Timeline of the civil rights movement The New Jim Crow Fremon, David...
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    Age and the Progressive Era, and was characterized by the nationwide sundown town phenomenon. Logan's focus was exclusively on African Americans in the...
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    Decatur, Indiana (category Sundown towns in Indiana)
    Decatur was known as a sundown town, where African Americans were discriminated against and eventually run out of the town completely in 1902. In a...
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    Gardnerville, Nevada (category Sundown towns in Nevada)
    local cattleman. It was a sundown town; a siren would be blown at 6 p.m. daily alerting Native Americans to leave town by sundown. The practice was ended...
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  • McDuffie, Dwayne (w), Luis, Jose (p), Mayer, J.P. (i). "Welcome To Sundown Town Part Two: Shadow and Act" Justice League of America, vol. 2, no. 28 (February...
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    Salem, Illinois (category Sundown towns in Illinois)
    formerly a sundown town. For decades, Salem had signs on each main road going into town telling African Americans that they were not allowed in town after...
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    Alba, Texas (category Sundown towns in Texas)
    those at Alba were forced to use convict labor, because Alba was a sundown town that banned African Americans and Hispanics from living or working there...
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    James Loewen's Sundown Towns, this may be a vestige of Burroughs's having been from Oak Park, Illinois, a former Sundown town (a town that forbids non-white...
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    of sundown towns in the United States "Town of Groton". Town of Groton. September 20, 2014. Archived from the original on September 14, 2003. "Town of...
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    Anna, Illinois (category Sundown towns in Illinois)
    Anna was historically a sundown town, in which African Americans were excluded from living in the town's limits. Though the town was named after Anna Davie...
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    Arab, Alabama (category Sundown towns in Alabama)
    place names. Arab was incorporated on December 10, 1892. Arab was a sundown town, with a sign warning African Americans not to stay in Arab after dark...
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    Culver City, California (category Sundown towns in California)
    The city was explicitly founded as a whites-only sundown town, as were most of the suburbs and towns outside the downtown and Central Avenue districts...
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    Eldorado, Illinois (category Sundown towns in Illinois)
    and most of the downtown businesses are gone. Eldorado was known as a sundown town until the 1960s. The Eldorado Normal and Industrial Institute was a historically...
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