Arab, Alabama
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Arab is a city mostly in Marshall County, with a portion in Cullman County, in the northern part of the U.S. state of Alabama, located 10 miles from Guntersville Lake and Guntersville Dam, and is incl
Aerial view of Arab
Main Street (SR 69), northbound
Sundown town
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Sundown towns, also known as sunset towns, gray towns, or sundowner towns, were all-White municipalities or neighborhoods in the United States and Canada that practiced a form of racial segregation by
Arab, Alabama
…others being "Ink" and "Bird." Arab has frequently been noted on lists of unusual place names. Arab was incorporated on December 10, 1892. Arab was a sundown town, with a sign warning Blacks not to stay in Arab after dark and, historically, even barring them during the day. Ku Klux Klan material was disseminated…
1940 edition of The Negro Motorist Green Book
A sculpture on Windom Road, between North Brentwood, Maryland, a historically black community, and Brentwood, Maryland, a sundown town, depicts two hands removing the original barrier between the municipalities.
Apartheid signs trainstation
Le Petit Journal 7 Oct 1906