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Definition of a township2/12/2024 ![]() Some towns are not and never were sundown towns but are listed for other reasons. Look over the information provided and come to your own conclusion. If, for example, a black family tried to move in, encountered considerable hostility, and left, that would qualify the town as “sundown.” Note that some sundown towns kept out Chinese Americans, Jews, Mexican Americans, Native Americans, even Mormons. “On purpose” does not require a formal ordinance. Also, institutionalized persons (in prisons, hospitals, colleges, etc.), live-in servants (in white households), and black or interracial children (in white households) do not violate the taboo. “All white” is in quotes because some towns allowed one black family to remain when they drove out the rest. It is an entire community (or even county) that for decades was “all white” on purpose. Just click on a state to see an alphabetical list of all the sundown towns we know about, think may been sundown towns, and have managed to get up onto the site.Ī sundown town is not just a place where something racist happened. Welcome to the world’s only registry of sundown towns.
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