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
Gardnerville, Nevada
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Gardnerville is an unincorporated town in Douglas County, Nevada, United States, adjacent to the county seat of Minden. The population was 6,211 at the 2020 census.
Sundown town
…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 that symbolically…
Downtown Gardnerville (2012)