sundown towns 
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SOURCE: Wisconsin Public Radio
5/24/2022
Was Your Wisconsin Town a "Sundown Town"?
Stephen Berrey discusses the way that violent segregation took place outside the South in the 1890s and early 1900s.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
2/7/2022
The Racist Terrorism and Segregation Behind "Midwest Nice"
by Aaron Kinard
The Midwest has a long history of racial exclusion that today manifests in the worst black-white inequality in the nation. "Niceness" can't be allowed to conceal systemic racism.
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9/5/2021
The Generosity of James Loewen
by Guy Lancaster
James Loewen didn't put ideals of prestige over his "deadly earnest desire to find and expose manifestations of American racism that had, for so long, gone unnoticed and unexplored by most scholars." His generosity went hand in hand with his widespread impact.
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SOURCE: WUSA 9
6/4/2021
Sundown Towns in Metro DC's History? Yes, Says James Loewen
James Loewen tells a DC-area TV station that the capital region has had "sundown towns" where African Americans have been excluded from living by law, custom, or terror.
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SOURCE: The Economist
5/25/2021
It Was once a KKK Stronghold. Last Year BLM Came to Town
What happened when BLM protest arose in Vidor, Texas, long a center of East Texas Klan activity?
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SOURCE: NBC Los Angeles
2/22/21
New Exhibit Reckons With Glendale's Racist Past as ‘Sundown Town'
The suburban city of Glendale, CA has initiated a series of public programs confronting its legacy as a "sundown town" where minorities, particulary African Americans, were able to work but barred from living or socializing.
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SOURCE: Boston Globe
10/7/2020
Once a Ku Klux Klan Stronghold, Groton Fights its Reputation as a ‘Sundown Town’
Recent instances of racist graffiti in the Boston suburb sparked local government to pass a resolution renouncing any past actions that made it unwelcoming to racial minorities. It is uncertain if Groton was a "sundown town" but it is widely known as a hotbed of Klan activity in the 1920s.
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SOURCE: City of Glendale (CA)
9/15/2020
Glendale, CA City Council Debates Resolution Acknowledging History as a "Sundown Town"
HNN contributor Jim Loewen encourages readers to watch the Glendale, CA City Council discuss a resolution acknowledging the city's history as a "sundown town."
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SOURCE: Southern Illinoisan
7/15/2020
Author James W. Loewen: Sundown Towns in Southern Illinois Should Acknowledge Racist Past, Take Steps to Change
“First, they need to admit it: Yes, we did this,” said Loewen.
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SOURCE: Southern Illinoisan
6/6/2020
In Wake of Floyd Death, Rural, White Southern Illinois Towns are Reckoning With Racist Past
Historian James W. Loewen's research on 'sundown towns' underscores the significance of the protests in these communities.
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SOURCE: The Daily Beast
3-9-18
This Tennessee Elementary School Had a Mural of a Lynching Still Up. In 2018.
An elementary school finally painted over an outside mural showing a Rebel flag and a scene suggesting a lynching. Was Crossville’s alleged past as a ‘sundown town’ to blame?
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SOURCE: King 5
2-17-17 (accessed)
Video of the Week: The Japanese Internment Camps, 75 Years Later
A moving series of videos remind us of the harm inflicted on Japanese Americans by FDR's order sending them to internment camps.
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SOURCE: Week.com
2-7-17
Video of the Week: Central Illinois Works to Change Associations With Racist Sundown Towns
Central Illinois has a long and uncomfortable association with exclusionary "Sundown Towns," where certain groups rejected other groups, leading to racially separate - practically segregated - cities & villages.
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SOURCE: The News-Gazette
11-1-15
Sundown towns remain problem
by James W. Loewen
Here's what they should do when caught.
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