Sundown towns thrived outside the South to exclude blacks without slavery precedent

Evidence

Sundown towns were the original opportunity hoarders: They limited the ability of black people to buy property inside city limits and take advantage of amenities available to white Americans. For the most part, sundown towns were not found in the South, with its historical ties to slavery. You see, in the South black people knew their place and knew that the hanging noose awaited their next misstep. Instead, sundown towns appeared throughout the nation, primarily during the period following Reconstruction between 1890 and 1940, when white people were once again looking for ways to exert their control over black Americans. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 338

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to ‘opportunity hoarder’ concept used throughout the reparations argument for geographic/economic exclusion.