Jim Crow is no longer enforced, but parts of the United States are still sundown in 2024. Here's the late Professor Jim Loewen's website. I got to meet him. May his memory be for a blessing! Did incredible work over several decades to document this phenomenon. justice.tougaloo.edu/sundown-town...
Historical Database of Sundown Towns Select a state from the map below to view a list of sundown towns FL MI ME NY PA VA WV OH IN IL WI NC TN AR MO GA SC KY AL LA MS IA MN OK TX NM KS NE SD ND WY MT C...
He interviewed older white residents who admitted to racial and ethnic violence that they would have never told a Black researcher. And his team documented and mapped it all. Website's evolved with the times. He learned that the most sundown region is (by far) the US Midwest. Which makes sense...
Some of those Pennsylvania ones marked Surely Not are questionable, unfortunately. I suspect the same of other states. Certainly very informative and eye-opening to say the least.
I got to briefly interact with him via email about 20 years for a class project in my undergrad, and he responded right away, which is a miracle considering the era and the fact that I was at a different university. My (future) wife and I were researching the racial history of our county. Great guy.