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Historical Database of Sundown Towns. Welcome to the world’s only registry of sundown towns. Just click on a state to see an alphabetical list of all the sundown towns we know about, think may been sundown towns, and have managed to get up onto the site.
Michigan has a history of sundown towns, where African Americans were unwelcome after dark. Some known examples include Grosse Pointe Park, Zeeland, and Warren. However, comprehensive documentation of such towns is limited.
Michigan Sundown Towns. Detroit is ringed by sundown towns. This site was created by Matt Cheney, revised by OddBird, copyrighted by James W. Loewen and heirs (Nick Loewen), and is maintained by Phil Huckelberry and Stephen Berrey.
In Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, Pennsylvania, and elsewhere, sundown towns were created in waves of violence in the early decades of the 20th century and then maintained well into the contemporary era.
Black Town or Township. Clear filter. Town of Special Interest. A database contributed by people across the nation underlies these maps and the tables you can generate.
So-called “sundown towns” existed from coast to coast -- including in Michigan.
Sundown Towns examines the origins of racially exclusive towns, why they remain “hidden in plain view” (p. 192), and ultimately posits a few tentative steps toward remedying the large number of towns that remain “all white on purpose” today.
The history and ongoing impacts of sundown towns may be a misunderstood and overlooked part of the US social landscape. The data collected by Dr. Loewen and his team uncovers that history and invites everyone to think critically about reasons behind why people live and don’t live where they do today.
Sundown towns, also known as sunset towns, gray towns, or sundowner towns, were all-white municipalities or neighborhoods in the United States. They were towns that practiced a form of racial segregation by excluding non-whites via some combination of discriminatory local laws, intimidation or violence.
O. Owosso, Michigan. Categories: Sundown towns in the United States by state. History of racism in Michigan.