Casey, Illinois
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Casey is a city in Clark and Cumberland counties in the U.S. state of Illinois. The population was 2,404 at the 2020 census.
Casey city hall
World's largest wind chime.
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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
Casey, Illinois
…and 8.1% of the population were below the poverty line, including 8.5% of those under age 18 and 5.3% of those age 65 or over. Casey has a history as a sundown town. In 1906, an African-American hotel cook allegedly insulted a white girl. Authorities sent him out of town before a trial could be completed so as to…
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