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  1. James W. Loewen _ Sundown Towns: A Hidden

    Recovering the memory of the increasing oppression of African Americans during the first half of the twentieth century can deepen our understanding of the role racism has played in our society and continues to play today.
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  2. James W. Loewen _ Sundown Towns: A Hidden

    our governments openly favored white supremacy and helped to create and maintain all-white communities. So did most of our banks, realtors, and police chiefs. If public relations offices, Chambers of Commerce, and local historical societies don't want us to know something, perhaps that something is worth learning. After all, how can we deal with something if we cannot even face it?
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  3. James W. Loewen _ Sundown Towns: A Hidden

    Since "healthy communities are able to recognize past mistakes," they went on to "pledge to work toward the common good in building a community where people of all races and cultural backgrounds are welcome to live and prosper.
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  4. James W. Loewen _ Sundown Towns: A Hidden

    What You Can Do About Sundown Towns: The Three-Step Program in Action To help sundown towns transcend their pasts and end second-generation sundown town issues, I suggest a "Three-Step Program": •​Admit it: "We did this." •​Apologize: "It was wrong, and we apologize." •​Renounce: "And we don't do it anymore.
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  5. James W. Loewen _ Sundown Towns: A Hidden

    Sundown town police forces, in addition to being all-white, may still be viewed by themselves and other residents as a city's first line of defense against black interlopers. As a result, they engage in DWB {"Driving While Black"} policing, targeting black motorists for minor infractions like failing to signal turns.
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  6. James W. Loewen _ Sundown Towns: A Hidden

    the 27 candidates for whom I could readily distinguish the racial policies of their hometowns, one-third were identified with sundown towns. Starting at the beginning of the century, these include Republican William McKinley, who grew up in Niles, Ohio, where "a sign near the Erie Depot," according to historian William Jenkins, "warned 'niggers' that they had better not 'let the sun set on their heads.'" McKinley defeated Democrat William Jennings Bryan, who grew up in Salem, Illinois, which for decades "had signs on each main road going into town, telling the blacks, that they were not allowed in town after sundown,
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