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globalriseofblackpeople · 1 year

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#black history #black power #sundown town #racism #America #amerikkka #knowledge #black knowledge #african #black unity

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ararebreedstory · 12 days

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Here's an interesting idea for a story:

Black vampires enter a 'sundown town.'

#vampire #vampires #black vampire #black fiction #black writers #black authors #black lives matter #blm #sundown #sundown town

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gayfloridaorangejuice · 5 months

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I just learned I live in a sundown town

super epic

#sundown town #uh

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geezerwench · 9 months

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Sundown Towns by State - History and Social Justice

The entire county I grew up in is listed as a sundown town. Calvert County in Maryland. Which really isn't all that surprising, but in a way, it is. I know. That doesn't make sense.

I'm white. My family is white.

In the 60s, 70s, and into the 1980s, the population was about 40% Black. I had Black and white teachers throughout the years I went to public school. Male and female teachers! It was normal to me.

My Mom drove a school bus for a private contractor who was a Black man

I was the minority white kid in a drum corp. Didn't think all that much about it. That's just how it was. I thought everywhere was like the county I grew up in.

Then I got married and moved halfway across the US to Louisiana in 1980. I asked one of the ladies I was friends with, "Where are all the Black people?"

Didn't see them anywhere. I didn't see Black people at the grocery store or the little convenience store on the corner. There weren't any working at the fast food joints or the car dealer. Didn't see them at the mall or movie theater or restaurants. It was weird. It was abnormal. There was something about it that just felt not quite right.

I was young and quite naive.

Where were all the Black people?

Her answer was, "Oh, they know their place."

I was flabbergasted. Like, where do they buy groceries and clothes and cars? Where do they work? Where do they live?

It was so strange to me. Little did I realize that most places were like Louisiana and not Calvert County. It was a learning experience.

#sundown towns #racism #discrimination #sundown town #try that in a small town

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black-paraphernalia · 1 year

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B/Man 'Mishandled' In A Sundown Town By Paddy Rollers Who Said He Tripped And Fell

Sundown town, also called sunset town, in U.S. history, a town that excluded non white people—most frequently African Americans—from remaining in town after sunset. More generally, sundown town is used to describe a place where the resident population was through deliberate action made to be overwhelmingly composed of white people.

The methods for enforcing such racial segregation ranged from episodes of collective violence such as public lynchings to ongoing housing discrimination enacted via exclusionary covenants that prevented Black people from owning property. Most sundown towns arose between about 1890, after the Reconstruction era ended, and 1968, when the Fair Housing Act prohibited racial discrimination in the sale, rental, financing, or advertising of housing.

Sundown towns coincided with a period in which Black Americans lost rights that had been gained immediately following the American Civil War (1861–65). The term sundown town originated in the numerous signs that were posted at the limits of such towns warning African Americans: “Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on You in ____.” (excerpt from Encyclopedia Britannica by Will Gosner - Sundown town)

Historical Database of Sundown Towns

Click the above link for a interactive map to show sundown towns in 2023

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#black paraphernalia #sundown town #jim crow 2.0 this is america

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odinsblog · 9 months

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Patrick Braxton became the first Black mayor of Newbern, Alabama, when he was elected in 2020, but since then he has fought with the previous administration to actually serve in office. (Aallyah Wright/Capital B)

NEWBERN, Ala. — There’s a power struggle in Newbern, Alabama, and the rural town’s first Black mayor is at war with the previous administration who he says locked him out of Town Hall.

After years of racist harassment and intimidation, Patrick Braxton is fed up, and in a federal civil rights lawsuit he is accusing town officials of conspiring to deny his civil rights and his position because of his race.

“When I first became mayor, [a white woman told me] the town was not ready for a Black mayor,” Braxton recalls.

The town is 85% Black, and 29% of Black people here live below the poverty line.

“What did she mean by the town wasn’t ready for a Black mayor? They, meaning white people?” Capital B asked.

“Yes. No change,” Braxton says.

Decades removed from a seemingly Jim Crow South, white people continue to thwart Black political progress by refusing to allow them to govern themselves or participate in the country’s democracy, several residents told Capital B. While litigation may take months or years to resolve, Braxton and community members are working to organize voter education, registration, and transportation ahead of the 2024 general election.

But the tension has been brewing for years.

Two years ago, Braxton says he was the only volunteer firefighter in his department to respond to a tree fire near a Black person’s home in the town of 275 people. As Braxton, 57, actively worked to put out the fire, he says, one of his white colleagues tried to take the keys to his fire truck to keep him from using it.

In another incident, Braxton, who was off duty at the time, overheard an emergency dispatch call for a Black woman experiencing a heart attack. He drove to the fire station to retrieve the automated external defibrillator, or AED machine, but the locks were changed, so he couldn’t get into the facility. He raced back to his house, grabbed his personal machine, and drove over to the house, but he didn’t make it in time to save her. Braxton wasn’t able to gain access to the building or equipment until the Hale County Emergency Management Agency director intervened, the lawsuit said.

“I have been on several house fires by myself,” Braxton says. “They hear the radio and wouldn’t come. I know they hear it because I called dispatch, and dispatch set the tone call three or four times for Newbern because we got a certain tone.”

This has become the new norm for Braxton ever since he became the first Black mayor of his hometown in 2020. For the past three years, he’s been fighting to serve and hold on to the title of mayor, first reported by Lee Hedgepeth, a freelance journalist based in Alabama.

Incorporated in 1854, Newbern, Alabama, today has a population of 275 people — 85% of whom are Black. (Aallyah Wright/Capital B)

Not only has he been locked out of the town hall and fought fires alone, but he’s been followed by a drone and unable to retrieve the town’s mail and financial accounts, he says. Rather than concede, Haywood “Woody” Stokes III, the former white mayor, along with his council members, reappointed themselves to their positions after ordering a special election that no one knew about.

Braxton is suing them, the People’s Bank of Greensboro, and the postmaster at the U.S. Post Office.

For at least 60 years, there’s never been an election in the town. Instead, the mantle has been treated as a “hand me down” by the small percentage of white residents, according to several residents Capital B interviewed. After being the only one to submit qualifying paperwork and statement of economic interests, Braxton became the mayor.

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#politics #white supremacy #patrick braxton #woody stokes #republicans #alabama #sundown towns #racism #voter suppression

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goodjohnjr · 2 years

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Uncle Phil - Brotha Didn't Realize He Was In The Infamous Sundown Town In Vidor Texas

Uncle Phil – Brotha Didn’t Realize He Was In The Infamous Sundown Town In Vidor Texas

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gudguy1a · 2 years

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Are Republicans Becoming the Taliban, Is That What’s Happening…?

Note, I wrote this in a rush to get it somewhat off my brain to get back to some other tasks I need to do, so please bear with me for this article, I may come back to polish it up more but you will get the gist of it here… To be clear, this does not extend to all Republicans – there are some that are very decent and very democratically oriented. But. We do have quite a significant number of…

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fanofspooky · 1 month

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newsfromstolenland · 2 years

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This is my list of sundown towns and regions known for racism in Canada. It is in no way complete, and I will continuously add to it as people submit more entries to me via dm/ask/submission.

If you know of a place that I have not yet included, please reach out and let me know!

Based on my research, this is the only existing list of sundown towns in Canada. I am compiling this in the interest of safety for racialized people.

#mine #sundown towns #racism #canada #racism tw

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goryhorroor · 6 months

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