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Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism
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Professor James Loewen, bestselling author of Lies My Teacher Told Me, presents a public lecture describing the establishment between 1890 and 1968 of thousands of "sundown towns" that systematically excluded African-Americans from living within their borders. Loewen's eye-opening history traces the sundown town's development and delineates the extent to which state governments and the federal government helped to create and maintain all-white communities through their lending and insuring policies.
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