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This is a most excellent book about Reconstruction from firsthand accounts. This country would have been a far different place if the federal government had see

• jpster 9y ago
  Also, Sundown Towns May have been at their most extreme in the South. But a look at Bay Area housing deeds from the 1940s will show that these neighborhoods were also explicitly seeking to keep non-whites out. Via explicit provisions that a house was not to be sold to or occupied by non-whites, unless they were the help.
  • wpietri 9y ago
    Oh, perhaps I misspoke. The "sundown town" phenomenon was strongest outside the South. It happened all over the US.