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It’s finally here! Today, No Safety After Dark- The Infrastructure Behind Sundown Towns is officially available for preorder. If you’ve been following this journey, you know this book grew out of a question that I just couldn’t leave alone! I followed that question and uncovered segregation, terror, and violence as the systems that made sundown…
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Sundown towns. Let’s talk about it. Posey county, Indiana. We’re gonna zoom in on Mt. Vernon. Over three days…a white mob murdered seven Black men in Mt. Vernon. In public. Let’s learn history. If you’ve been following my work, you already know…I talk about the sundown infrastructure: Segregation. Terror. Violence. So, ofc posey county must…
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Sundown towns. Let’s talk about it. …Howard county Indiana is 99th on the list. whew. Chile! In 1923…in Kokomo Indiana, over 200,000 members of the Klan had an event. Men. Women. Children. And in 2016….watch this In 2022, there was a court case in Kokomo for housing segregation (cough cough) infrastructure still fighting. That’s only…
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No Safety After Dark
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Sundown towns. Let’s talk about it. Vanderburgh County, Indiana is number 102 on the list. Remember, the sundown infrastructure says ..it doesn’t matter who the majority population was, what matters is who held the power to push us out or box us in. I talk about this greatly in my upcoming book. Anyway… In Evansville…
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Sundown towns. Let’s talk about it. Lake County, Indiana is number 104 on the list. The question here is Why did Gary become home for so many of our ancestors here? Well, Gary is what happened because of the sundown infrastructure. If you’ve watched my videos on Atlanta or Chicago, you know the sundown pattern.…
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Sundown towns! Let’s talk about it. Walton county Georgia is 81st on the list. Let’s learn history. Our ancestors were enslaved here. White people built generational wealth from our ancestors free labor in their cotton fields and homes. We were enslaved on large plantations like the one owned by Carter Hill in Good Hope where…
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Augusta Georgia is 59th on the list. By 1900, Augusta was sick with Jim Crow and fits the criteria of a Jim Crow sundown town. Like writing the play book for a Jim Crow sundown town, Augusta dehumanized our ancestors in public spaces, had segregation in housing and schools, threats of arrest, and violence or…
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History can’t teach what history doesn’t preserve.During my research for No Safety After Dark, I found countless stories of racial exclusion, violence, and sundown communities hidden in old newspapers, archives, and local records. Too much of this history is disappearing.Today, I launched a petition calling for the preservation of America’s sundown history so future generations…
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 Americus Georgia is 58th on the list. This town has been majority Black since the 20th century, and with the legacy of slavery, tenant farming, segregation, discrimination, violence, combined with income inequality and a history of exclusionary policies, it was unsafe with threats of arrest violence or worse if our ancestors were in the wrong…
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Lee county Georgia is 75th on the list. By 1899, Lee county was sick with Jim Crow and fits the criteria of a Jim Crow sundown town. Segregation in public spaces schools, and housing. 2. Terror from hoods, police, and citizens, 3. Violence or worse. This county had 14 lynchings! Let’s learn history. Our ancestors…
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Sundown towns! Let’s talk about it. Baker county Georgia is 74th on the list. By 1903, baker county was sick with Jim Crow and fits the criteria of a Jim Crow sundown town. Segregation in public spaces, schools, and housing. 2. Terror from hoods, police, and citizens, 3. Violence or worse. This county had 14…
