sundown town
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]After signs posted at town entrances warning that “colored people” (among other terms) were required to leave town by sundown.
Noun
[edit]sundown town (plural sundown towns)
- A place or jurisdiction that prohibits or discourages a certain class of people, typically a certain race or ethnicity, from living there or remaining there after sundown, or, in some cases, from visiting during the day.
- Synonyms: sunset town, gray town, sundowner town
- 1957 November 11, Joseph Ator, “Firm Hand of the Law Stifles Nashville's Strife by Racial Segregation”, in Chicago Daily Tribune[2], via Newspapers.com, section 1, page 2:
- Cousin Paul said: "Of course, this is a sundown town [no Negro residents tolerated], but if Ike sends in the paratroopers, we can always integrate with the bears."
- 1960, The National Conference and the reports of the State Advisory Committees to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights[3], page 330:
- However, according to old-timers, there is a time-honored tradition extending back at least two generations that "this is a sundown town."
- 1968 August 25, Doug Walker, “Integration Moving on Peaceful Feet”, in Dayton Daily News[4], Dayton, Ohio, via Newspapers.com, page 4-C:
- 2016 July 11, Miller Jozwiak, “From 'Go Home' to 'Welcome Home' for local man”, in The Sheboygan Press[5], Sheboygan, Wisconsin, via Newspapers.com, pages 1A–2A:
- [James W.] Loewen compiled an online map allowing people to find out more about the racial history of their towns, identifying thousands of likely and confirmed sundown towns across the U.S.
Translations
[edit]place that prohibits certain people from living there
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See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]sundown town on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
