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 Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 11:54 am Post subject: "Shedding Light on Sundown Towns" |
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| Quote: | "As recently as the 1960s, many local governments in the United States had official ordinances outlawing African Americans. Rare in the South, these “sundown towns”—named for a sign at the city limits of Manitowoc, Wisconsin, that read, “Nigger, Don’t Let the Sun Go Down On You In Our Town”—were common in the rest of the country. The Fair Housing Act, part of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, made it illegal to formally discriminate when selling or renting property. But sundown policies didn’t disappear so much as they went underground, and all-white towns remain even today..." |
-- This is from an article at Utne Reader online, which you can read in full at the following link;
http://www.utne.com/2008-03-21/Politics/Shedding-Light-on-Sundown-Towns.aspx
-- Included in the article is mention of (and UU World link regarding) Unitarian Universalists' consideration of this issue at last year's General Assembly.
-- Ron
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