Burbank was also a sundown town, and Pasadena had exclusionary elements ... Despite the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, many restaurants and motels in the northern U.S. would not serve ...

A cabin in the former resort town of Lincoln ... it would be before sundown,” Jackson said. They’d bring box lunches to avoid being turned down at restaurants, and would rest for the night ...

it felt as if the sun had set on this sundown town. But an unexpected thing happened on the way to obsolescence. In the early 2000s, city officials legalized alcohol at restaurants and set out to ...

Growing up in Appalachian Kentucky in the 1960s, Wayne Riley wasn't surprised that Black residents felt unwelcome to sit down at certain restaurants ... bad name. A ‘sundown town ...

Sign on a restaurant window in Lancaster ... you're probably going to have a sundown town there,” Jeffries said. One clear example of a sundown town can be found 30 miles north of Columbus in Marion, ...

In November, I’d published a story about this small southern Illinois city’s reputation as a sundown town — a place ... and started going to bars and restaurants in Anna, she said people ...

While unofficial "sundown towns," a term for a town that prohibits Black people after dark, still reportedly exist in the United States, a viral image of a sign reading "Whites only within city ...

According to Britannica, sundown in U.S. history is a town that excluded nonwhite people, most frequently African Americans, when the sun set. How people enforced these “rules” ranged anywhere ...

And some history: La Cañada Flintridge has a reputation as a former “sundown town,” a community where Black people were unwelcome — subject to harassment, violence and arrest, especially ...

PEKIN – For years, some Illinois towns had the reputation of being a "sundown town," a city where it wasn't safe for Black people to be after dark. While that's largely gone by the wayside ...