List of sundown towns in the United States

The period was marked by the lawful continuation of racial segregation in the United States, known as the Jim Crow era.

The Civil Rights Act of 1968 codified enforcement of federal law abolishing restrictive housing covenants.

Sundown town practices may be evoked in the form of city ordinances barring people of color after dark, exclusionary covenants for housing opportunity, signage warning ethnic groups to vacate, unequal treatment by local law enforcement, and unwritten rules permitting harassment.

Sundown towns in the United States include present communities that do not "socially accept" people who are not White.

The 1948 United States Supreme Court case Shelley v. Kraemer outlawed the legal enforcement of restrictive housing covenants.

Map showing historical sundown towns in the United States by county. Map only includes places with verifiable instances of discrimination based on race listed in this article. A location's inclusion here is not necessarily indicative of this type of discrimination being present today.
May 2, 1904, newspaper article describing a race war in Bonanza, Arkansas
A headline taken from the February 19, 1913, edition of The Atlanta Georgian about violence in Cumming, Georgia
An estimated crowd of 10,000 gathered for the lynching of Will James on November 11, 1909.
Around 10,000 spectators watch the lynching of William "Froggie" James in Cairo, Illinois , on November 11, 1909.
1902 New York Times article detailing the last Black man to be forcefully driven out of Decatur, Indiana.
Julian S. Carr , Confederate States Army veteran and namesake of Carrboro, North Carolina .