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James w loewen sundown towns 20056/20/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He defines a sundown town as “any organized jurisdiction that for decades kept African-Americans or other groups from living in it and was thus 'all-white' on purpose.” The methods of the sundown town went beyond the usual racist practices common to many communities an often included the posting of explicit signs. In this revelatory exposé, Loewen methodically details the past (and perhaps present) existence of sundown towns throughout the Northern United States in the twentieth century. Discussion of the practices of these communities remained virtually non-existent for almost one hundred years, until Sociology Professor James Loewen published Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism in 2005. In 1908 a muckracking reporter by the name of Ray Stannard Baker published Following the Color Line, in which he exposed what would later be called “sundown towns”: communities that forcibly kept out African-Americans. ![]()
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