After sundown

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[SheltieLover]

1. Omg!

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2. The Negro Motorist Green Book

Link to tweet

[Haggard Celine]

3. I've seen a couple that said,

"N#&&@$ don't let the sun set on you in _____ County. There are some awful people in America, but some great ones, too. I suppose that's true of just about any country.

[Hotler]

4. isn't there a town in Nevada that still has air raid sirens that sound off at sun down?

It may have changed in the past few years. Old law on the books remove by city council, I think.

[cbabe]

5. Nevada sundown town and tribes

They say it’s tradition’.

https://news.yahoo.com › former-nevada-sundown-town-stands-180438430.html
Former Nevada 'sundown town' stands by siren amid reckoning

Jul 26, 2021A red siren perched atop a small town's volunteer fire department sounds every night at 6 p.m., sending a piercing noise echoing through the ranches and towns of northern Nevada's Carson Valley including Dresslerville — a community governed by the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California. To Serrell Smokey, the tribe's chairman, the sound is a reminder of racism and violence inflicted upon ...

[cbabe]

6. Seattle sundown town: not just the south

Redlining and sundown laws creating depressed neighborhoods, economic disparity

https://www.seattlepi.com/seattlenews/article/Here-s-how-Seattle-got-so-segregated-10521762.php

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Discriminatory covenants were ruled illegal in 1948. But neighborhood councils and real estate professionals continued to prevent people of color from buying homes in most Seattle neighborhoods, as did “sundown” laws that prohibited non-white people from being on North Seattle streets after sunset.

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