re: #32 EPR-radar

In my high school history classes, the topic of “Sundown towns” was not covered.

It was quite the eye-opener when I ran across it a few years ago.

en.wikipedia.org

Described by former NAACP President Julian Bond as “One of the survival tools of segregated life”,[10] The Negro Motorist Green Book (at times titled The Negro Traveler’s Green Book or The Negro Motorist Green-Book, and commonly referred to simply as the “Green Book”) was an annual, segregation-era guidebook published by Hackensack, New Jersey letter carrier turned New York travel agent Victor H. Green, for African-American motorists.[10] It was published in the United States from 1936 to 1966, during the Jim Crow era, when discrimination against non-whites was widespread.[11][12] Road trips for African-Americans were fraught with inconveniences, even dangers, because of racial segregation, racial profiling by police, the phenomenon of travelers just “disappearing”, and the existence of numerous sundown towns. According to the Huffington Post, “there were at least 10,000 “sundown towns” in the United States as late as the 1960s; in a ‘sundown town’ nonwhites had to leave the city limits by dusk, or they could be picked up by the police or worse. These towns were not limited to the South—they ranged from Levittown, N.Y., to Glendale, Calif., and included the majority of municipalities in Illinois.”[10]