Definition, Betydelse & Synonymer | Engelska ordet SUNDOWN

Definition av SUNDOWN

1. solnedgång

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• For decades, Salem had signs on each main road going into town telling African Americans that they were not allowed in town after sundown.
• In the early 20th century, Clay, Greene, and Craighead counties had sundown town policies forbidding African Americans from living in the area.
• It is the only African American community in Cullman County, which was founded in 1873, and was considered a safe haven for Blacks at a time when other cities with white majorities were considered dangerous for Blacks, and referred to as 'sundown' cities because after sundown Blacks were in danger there.
• In 1908, they threatened them to leave or die, which resulted in an almost complete depopulation of African-Americans in the county, and earned Paragould the designation of a sundown town.
• Unlike the neighboring town of Arcola, Tuscola did not have the ordinance, common in small Illinois towns at the time, that an African-American person could not be on the streets after sundown.
• In the 1890s, Sandoval was a sundown town, prohibiting African Americans from entering or living in the town.
• Pinckneyville became sundown around 1928; the extant story in Pinckneyville is that a white woman was raped by a black man, so the white leadership of the town loaded the black population of the town on a bus, drove them out of town, and left them in East St.
• In 1896, Linton drove 300 African-American strikebreakers from town and became a sundown town, prohibiting African-Americans from living there.
• By the 1880s, Elwood had become a sundown town, prohibiting Black people from residing within the town.
• According to The Des Moines Register, residents of Lenox and nearby New Market in Taylor County recall sundown town ordinances to restrict the presence of people of color.
• In 1910, Kiowa became a sundown town, having a sign at each of four roads into the city that read, "Niggers Read and Run", and Black residents were given 24 hours to leave town.
• For at least 25 years during its early history, Stoutsville had been a sundown town, a place that forbade Black people to stay overnight.
• Minden sounded a "sundown siren" at 6pm almost every evening from 1917 until 2023, originally signifying that members of the Washoe Indian tribe were required to leave town by 6:30pm or face jail or fine.
• Like the other six "FDR towns", Greenhills was founded as a sundown town, using restrictive covenants to prevent minorities from purchasing homes there.
• On April 19, 1892, the expected inrush of settlers did materialize; by sundown some 400 claims had been posted.
• Until it was named in a grand jury investigation in 1904, Holdenville was a sundown town where African Americans were not allowed to live or even wait for a train.
• As of 1900, Dougherty was a sundown town where African Americans were not allowed to live and could only visit on business in daylight.
• During the 1930s, TVA officials excluded black families from the city, effectively making it a sundown town, purportedly to conform to the customs and traditions of the area.
• Historically, Vidor has been described as a sundown town, a term used to describe racially homogeneous communities, specifically all-white towns, that have shown hostility to people of other races after sunset.
• As a "sundown town", like other Franklin Roosevelt towns around the nation (such as Greenbelt, Greenhills, Greendale, Hanford, or Norris), it was for whites only.

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