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
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
Minden, Nevada
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Minden is a census-designated place in Douglas County, Nevada, United States. As of the 2020 census, Minden had a population of 3,442. It is the county seat of Douglas County and is adjacent to the to
Sundown town
…Specific examples of exclusion of Native Americans, Asians, Latinos, Jews, and Catholics alongside many other communities include towns such as Minden and Gardnerville, Nevada, in which sirens were used from 1917 until 1974 to signal Native Americans to leave town by 6:30 p.m. each evening, a practice…
Douglas County Courthouse (2006)
The Minden Flour Milling Company, September 2013, one of eight sites in Minden listed on the National Register of Historic Places