Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism, (Paperback)

from bezoar44

This book tells an appalling story: how, in towns and counties across America, blacks (and members of some other minorities) were forced to flee; and how many of communities have used intimidation or social shunning to keep themselves all white to the present day (or at least until very recently)...

from froxgirl

Scholarly works can be difficult to write in a way that appeals to non-academic readers. This one does a good job of engaging and enraging those who are unaware that locales that banned Black people ("Don't let the sun go down on you in this town") were mostly Midwestern rather than Southern. The...

from KingRat

James Loewen is the well-known author of Lies My Teacher Told Me which is an excellent primer on the portions of history that aren't really covered in school. Sundown Towns is his treatment of the practice of counties, towns, and suburbs that intentionally excluded blacks and other non-whites fro...

from KingRat

James Loewen is the well-known author of Lies My Teacher Told Me which is an excellent primer on the portions of history that aren't really covered in school. Sundown Towns is his treatment of the practice of counties, towns, and suburbs that intentionally excluded blacks and other non-whites fro...