Sundown-town expulsion permanently shaped midwestern demographics

Evidence

Sundown towns increased between 1890 and 1930 for all midwestern states, some dramatically. Black people did not live there then—and they live there now only in small percentages, because the states liked it that way. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 362

Categorization

• XREF: Evidence that expulsion effects persist into the present, supporting current-harm claims in the reparations case.