Sundown town
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Sundown towns, also known as sunset towns or gray towns, are all-white municipalities or neighborhoods in the United States that practice a form of segregation by enforcing restrictions excluding people of non-white races via some combination of discriminatory local laws, intimidation, and violence. The term came from signs posted that "colored people" had to leave town by sundown.
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See also
- Black Codes (United States)
- Jim Crow laws
- Orania, an exclusive white town in South Africa
- Racial segregation in the United States
- Redlining
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