Most Midwest cities were sundown towns by 1930

Evidence

The historian and sociologist James Loewen estimates that more than half of all the cities in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Kansas, among other regions, were sundown towns. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 363

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth verifying Loewen’s estimate and methodology, since breadth across all cities is a strong claim Brown leans on.