California cities maintained sunset laws barring Black residents after dark.

Evidence

BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 99 “Historian Olen Cole Jr. tells how the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s tried to locate a company of African American workers in a large park that bordered Burbank and Glendale. Both cities refused; the reason given was an ‘old ordinance of the cities of Burbank and Glendale which prohibited Negroes from remaining inside municipal limits after sun down.’ ” Loewen, Sundown Towns, 100. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 956

Categorization

  • XREF: Sundown-town history connects to the saturated-system harm chain of the three-part reparations argument; the Glendale report also connects to the housing-wealth-through-racism thread from the Whiteness of Wealth. — connects to: Sundown towns were jurisdictions that kept African Americans out on purpose — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 337
  • yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Sundown towns were jurisdictions that kept African Americans out on purpose — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 337