Burlington, Colorado
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Burlington is the home rule city that is the county seat of, and the most populous municipality in, Kit Carson County, Colorado, United States. The city population was 3,172 at the 2020 United States
South Lincoln Street in Burlington (2019)
Burlington, 1943
An AH-1 Cobra on display outside of the VFW Post in Burlington
Burlington welcome sign
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
Burlington, Colorado
…South Russia, who, in addition to their homesteads, built Congregational and Lutheran churches. Burlington, CO is on the Loewen database of possible sundown towns, although Tougaloo College recognizes that it is "surely not" still one. Burlington is located on the High Plains in eastern Colorado…
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