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Patches of tiled sidewalk that once led into storefronts now faded into dirt. They are so named because some marked their city limits with placards warning specific groups of people to stay away after the sun went down. But it hurt. PEKIN For years, some Illinois towns had the reputation of being a "sundown town," a city where it wasn't safe for Black people to be after dark. I told Walker about Easter Smith and Arieh Hart. Local historians and historical societies can sometimes be reluctant to engage, acknowledge or tell stories about the difficult or shameful parts of their communitys history. The advantage of this for towns is an increase in legislative power, she says. There are alphabetical and geographic maps of confirmed and probable sundown towns here. If you share republished stories on social media, wed appreciate being tagged in your posts. As I remember, in order to prove to the Anna people that he had been lynched, I think they brought one of his legs back to Anna, Hindman recalled in the 1970s, as part of an oral history project at southern Illinois Shawnee Community College. It was new since the last time I had been in town. He didnt go with her. Smith, 38, moved to Anna in 2016 with her six children: Arieh, 19; Atarah, 18; Amiyah, 16; Arojae, 15; Asaiah, 12; and Aseana, 11. ProPublica Illinois is an independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces investigative journalism with moral force. This entry includes information on the methods that have been used to exclude black residents and census records showing the white, black, Asian and Hispanic populations in the town from 1860 to the present. I dont know you or your son personally, one message read. Longmont, CO, where I live, is listed in the database, but the entry for the town has no, zero, information, other than the comment that "Longmont, CO, has joined The Inclusive Communities Partnership of the National League of Cities" and the statement that Longmont is "surely not" still a sundown town.I have no evidence either way, but if you're going to list a town in the database, I'd think you should have SOMETHING to go on. Darrel Dexter, a local historian who lives in Jonesboro and teaches high school social studies in nearby Tamms, said that many of his black students see Anna as a racist place. If people in Anna want their town to shed that reputation, he said, theyll have to reckon with the history of A-N-N-A. For the small, independent towns all around the state that are still all white or almost all white, its like the civil rights movement never happened, he told me. Im looking forward to reading your thoughts. Somebody just drove by and yelled out the window, Youre a nigger lover, Gavin said. These areas have managed to enforce racial segregation through either intimidation or discriminatory local laws, or a combination of both. He added, It was just a racist town.. NBC Universal, Inc. Decades ago, South Florida was segregated in some areas, Black people could work, but they couldn't stay overnight. Smith shrugs it off. These towns openly discriminated against Black residents and visitors, and violence was a common tactic. Ralph Smith, 30, has been employed there for two years. I know many black families who live here, and none of them ever mention racial incidents. Thank you for the list! The whole world., Annas Walmart draws a more diverse crowd. The 2022-2023 UUA Common Read Shares how five diverse congregations encounter frustrations and disappointments, as well as hope and wonder, once they commit to the journey to create multicultural, antiracist Beloved Community. Loewen (emeritus, sociology, U. of Vermont) exposes the history and persistence of "sundown towns," so-named for the signs often found at their corporate limits warning African Americans and other minorities not to be found in the town after dusk. I am white. They dont deserve the economy. In Chicago, she was a recipient of Chicago Filmmakers Digital Media Production Fund for Battle Flag, an interactive documentary which questions the meaning of the Confederate battle flag in America. Sometimes entire counties went sundown, usually when their county seats did. https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2021/08/26/sundown-towns-black-travel. Not sure why everyone is interpreting your town being on this map as it being a Sundown Town. The map above shows the new metro system I've been designing for Dallas, Texas. But yes, lets believe the white man- they have done so much GOOD for us so far. I live in Reynoldsburg, OH and it is NOT a sundown town. Being surrounded by water already gives this town an eerie and isolated feel. Things do change. Hosted by Tougaloo College, Tougaloo, MS, 39174 and facilitated by Pantheon. I just didnt think it was worth talking about., Some sundown towns in the Midwest have begun to confront their legacies. Killeen and copperas cove are around ft hood while there is racism here there is so many people of different races that live here and retired here that info might need to be changed. He kept his composure. The Sundown Towns Database does not claim to be a complete record of all sundown towns in the USA. Get ready to tell your congregation's story. For much of the 20th century, Anna was almost entirely white, except for a handful of black residents at different times. The term sundown town applies to places that, via policy, violence or both, barred black people from town after dark; as the book explains, the phrase is derived from the signs that many of [these places] formerly sported at their corporate limits signs that usually said Nigger, Dont Let the Sun Go Down on You in __.. Not surprising, but still horrifying nonetheless. Champaign, IL (61820) Today. He just said it. 4500. And under it is another sign that looks just like it, a green sign with white letters. Our local, county and state police would never tolerate that, and neither would our governor nor the people of our great state. One afternoon in Anna during my second visit, in May 2018 I approached two postal workers, both of them white, loading mail trucks behind the towns post office and asked them where I could find someone who wasnt white. The decision was in response to a bill designed to limit discrimination lawsuits by making changes to the Missouri Human Rights Act. He said he cant think of a single incident in Anna that had race at its center that had taken place in his years of public service. And until people are willing to at least acknowledge that its there, theres not going to be any change.. Well I was interested in this, but the town I grew up in Montana, is on this and it shouldnt be. Years before, when she was new to Illinois and living in Murphysboro, about 25 miles north, she got lost driving somewhere on U.S. Highway 51 after dark and called her husband for directions. They laughed about how, sometimes, white people in Anna can be overly nice to them. @Anonymous I didn't use the term 'colored people'. There is a restriction against spending the night in your car but thats unrelated. Signs are still posted. More often than not, racism leaves no evidence, but the experience is communicated through word of mouth. It's a skill.I did a thread for those saying there is no proof. Ignorance? While working on a digital interactive map with National Geographic, Taylor says she discovered there has been a small increase in Black and Brown people in sundown towns even though they are still 90% white. I got into town just after sunset. Still, Smith often thinks twice about simple decisions white people seldom give much thought to for example, which black friends she can invite to town, because shes not sure theyll all be received well. When Easter Smith opened the door, her house smelled like dinner. (She asked me not to publish her name, out of concern for her safety.). On the first day of Amiyahs senior year at Anna-Jonesboro High, students gathered before class outside the school for impromptu group photos. I took a seat at the bar. Sundown towns dated back to the colonial days, when the ordinances and laws were also aimed at Native Americans. When I met him last year, Hunter was the chief of Annas Police Department, and I was curious whether the A-N-N-A reputation affected how local officials did their jobs. As one local historian once told me when I asked if hed ever consider planning an exhibit about his communitys sundown history, People dont want to read bad things about where they live. Was Your Town a Sundown Town? The green books exists because there were simply too many places BP could get beaten or lynched. Well, it's history and I like to learn. Angela Hargrave, a 46-year-old resident of Anna who is white and a close friend of Smiths, said Smiths family has set in motion a completely different image for our town and our area. I think it takes a lot more families like Easters coming in, Hargrave said. Thats why shes interested in looking at how sundown towns operate. The methods for enforcing such racial segregation ranged . Sundown towns are communities that for decadesformally or informallykept out African Americans or other groups. Unfortunately, I grew up in this area. Where were sundown towns in Illinois? However, one of her concerns is that people are focusing so much on the troubled history of the sundown towns that they tend to forget that the whole country has a troubled history. I was born here and lived in the south for many years, so I dont see skin color, said Hunter, who retired in May after nearly two decades on the force. We just learn from each other, Arieh said. Sundown towns also range across the income spectrum. The lights were on at a place called the Brick House Grill, and if you were out on South Main Street on a Friday night in February, chances are, thats where you were going. American stopped counting lynchings in 1968 and it wasn't because they stopped happening. Trust me, I have lived in many states, and traveled to all, and know that racism exists. Theres been a lot of attention on sundown towns because people have recently learned that these towns existed, Taylor says. Right?? Changing reputation: Once known as a 'sundown town' and KKK stronghold, Pekin tries to move past racist history. Sign up for The Weekly Dispatch, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country. So that always bothered me, that that was their perception. Racism is not a problem in Anna, he said, at least no more than it is in the rest of the country. Its a shame that wording is even out there when it comes to Anna, Hartline said. I hopped into the backseat of Taylors blue station wagon, and a man named Gregory Walker, 69, sat in the passenger seat. At the time, he was dating a girl who was biracial. This is the kind of thing that makes her wish she had moved to Anna sooner. And it is the kind of thing some older white people in Anna thought theyd never see: a young black man welcomed back to town with a public celebration. Or simply tell me this: How do you want to engage with this issue? Author Candacy Taylor spent all summer documenting Green Book sites and exploring how Black Americans can travel safely across the U.S in 2021. When I went to church with the family one morning, I watched a white woman touch Atarahs hair and tell her she was beautiful, like Beyonc., Arieh pointed out that, since theyve lived in Anna, his white friends here have taught him how to do things like catch fish, drive ATVs and shoot guns. Sundown Towns. I don't want it to be conflated with the reality [that] there are serious policies that are very prevalent in progressive cities and states, Taylor says, that are equally destructive and debilitating to the growth and fairness and equality of Black people.''. The term meant. Below, a Q&A with ProPublica Illinois reporter Logan Jaffe. And thats what I love.. What Im talking about is seeing him bring that community together. I picked up the book in part because its author, James W. Loewen, a sociologist who taught at the University of Vermont and at Tougaloo College in Mississippi, is from Decatur, Illinois. How do you dance like that? Sundown towns, or grey towns, were all-white neighborhoods in the United States that used discriminatory local laws, intimidation, or violence to keep their town all-white. So that doesnt allow us to be exposed to different people or different ethnicities. Given this, hes not sure hell stay in Anna after college. Some towns like Harrison, Arkansas, still display confederate flags and big, scary signs, she says. In a way, though, it doesnt matter. Racial covenants in the deeds. Please fix the dot on the map. Accessed 3 May 2022. Safety is a priority and this is sadly, still needed. Nokomis. The Green Book coincided with the second wave of the Great Migration, when 1.5 million Black people fleeing racial terror in the South headed North, she says. A man two stools over from me struck up a conversation. As noted in this video report from The Associated Press, there are several places in the United States that still operate as hidden sundown towns: Buzzfeed News reported on the continued existence of sundown towns in 2021: In 2017, the NAACP issued a travel warning for the entire state of Missouri, a first for the organization. And that's what I'm really fascinated with because that to me is again more covert operations that are very difficult to fight.. The green ones with white letters. Which is why users are actively encouraged to submit information about towns not in the database and to submit comments on those towns which are in the database. Hed grown to like it. He purposely listed towns with few Black people in past Census because he says that is a great starting point. They led James to a pair of steel arches that spanned the intersection in the center of Cairos commercial district, which was crowded with thousands of onlookers, most of whom came as word spread about James arrest. The man was white. We recognize this is a problem and need to do something about it.. Glens Falls, does NOT. Today, Emily and John share a small tombstone in the Anna cemetery. (The state of Missouri offered no public response to the NAACP but did make a Black woman the face of its tourism campaign last year.). https://twitter.com/digitalsista/status/1411762780718391296. Taylor said hes noticed more black people in Anna in the past 10 years I take my hat off to that but, he said, changing Annas reputation is going to take a while. Love the map concept. Even though it may never have been codified, I found references to the fact that black people werent allowed to live in Anna in newspaper articles from as early as 1903. The term "sundown town" is familiar to many African Americans. One of Illinois' most written-about sundown towns is Anna, but Loewen shares many examples in his book including Villa Grove, a town twenty miles from our campus. It is time these stories become a more visible part of our states history. High 44F. If I had a document for every racist experience towards me, I'd fill out at least a good half inch binder (I'm not black). Is that your real hair? Snopes and the Snopes.com logo are registered service marks of Snopes.com, A photograph shows a sign in a "sundown town" in 2022 that reads "Whites only within city limits after dark. Yes there are racist areas but you should have to have something to prove this other then made up accusations. You may also be interested in exploring interactive maps exploring the enduring legacy of Redlining Maps on the racial distribution of American towns and cities. We do not generally permit translation of our stories into another language. To advertise their actions, the towns sometimes posted sundown signs on the highway or in the railroad station. As his mother followed the van carrying him and other members of the Anna-Jonesboro wrestling team back into town after the finals, people lined up on Main Street to wave and clap and cheer. I think even he got out when it got too violent. They were not to lash out or fight. Seeing this honestly gives me hope that people can and do change.. The practices declined since the Civil Rights era, when laws banning such discriminationwere passed. I love mapping. Green Book Sites. Worst map ever. Sundown towns, also known as sunset towns, gray towns, or sundowner towns, are all-white municipalities or neighborhoods in the United States that practice a form of racial segregation by excluding non-whites via some combination of discriminatory local laws, intimidation, and violence. Giacomazzo, Bernadette. Thats for Aint No Niggers Allowed. He laughed, shook his head and took a sip of his beer. When I called James Taylor, the man I had met at the Anna Walmart months before, he told me there was someone in Cairo I should meet. There were thousands of these sundown communities and most of them were predominant in the Midwest, in the West and in the North, Taylor says. A 'sundown town,'" Riley said, a term for thousands of rural towns of the era where Blacks were excluded by law or intimidation. Smith got Facebook messages from people shed never met. I talked with public officials, historians and longtime residents. The sundown towns team figured out a way to serve the database records through an API that I could add as a data layer on the new map. Erie. TrackingNumber.org I've just tracked a package sent to me in London from California. Would the man who first recited A-N-N-A have done so if I werent white? Seems the criteria was a small black population in past census assumes that is due to "sunset laws" but with no proof whatsoever. In California, Glendale and Culver City. She told her husband that Anna was the place they needed to be. She previously was an embedded mediamaker with The New York Times Race/Related newsletter in collaboration with the documentary showcase POV, in which she reported and produced an audience-driven project confronting the pervasiveness of racism through everyday objects. Most people said they wished the A-N-N-A reputation would just go away and were quick to say Anna wasnt like that anymore. PERU, Ill., Sept. 23 Here in this historic sundown town, population 10,300, where the Illinois River and a railroad stretch for miles across a scenic emerald valley, a Black body was found . Hindman, in his interview, said any black people who worked or lived in Anna were driven out of town after the Anna Pelley incident in 1909. Then, in a moment that would lodge itself in regional memory, a 23-year-old white woman from Anna was found dead in November 1909 in an alley in Cairo. Some white parents, particularly upset about the post featuring Arieh, spoke to administrators about it, Smith said. They posted a photo of Arieh and wrote a caption calling him the N-word and Annas Jackie Robinson. The school disciplined the students behind the account. Also, cant close or minimize the key, which covers a large block of the map at all times. Thank you for your interest in republishing this story. (617) 742-2100 | info@uua.org. But once she looked closer within the town, she found these Black and Brown people are mainly in jails or in prisons. James W. Loewen, a sociologist from Decatur, published a book on the topic and chronicled multiple cities within Illinois. I added layer filtering functionality to help users tailor what data to view. Can I touch it? She prayed. Lexington. Taylor says during her travels she came across so-called sundown towns all-white communities or neighborhoods that intentionally exclude Black people and other minorities through discriminatory systems. . The signs posted in Sundown Towns used those words. Or check out the most ghetto cities and the most dangerous cities in Illinois. In his book, Loewen profiles three Indiana towns; Elwood, Huntington and Martinsville. ANNA, it reads. He historically situates the rise of the sundown town movement in the years following the Civil War; describes the mechanisms of violence, threats . People just dont have enough education or just havent been around a lot, said Smith, who lives about 30 minutes outside Anna. Most of these are confirmed. I wish we had more diversity on our staff, said Brett Detering, the schools principal. There are a bunch that I would recommend avoiding after dark, but that would be for anyone regardless of skin color due to high crime rates. Ive lived in many states all over the USA. (Whitney Curtis, special to ProPublica Illinois), (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library via The Library of Congress), Anna is a city of a little more than 4,000 people, (Source: Mapbox. Taking information from James W. Loewen's database at http://sundown.afro.illinois.edu/sundowntownsshow.php?state=IL, this map gathers together two categories, towns and counties that. I was in Springfield this week to talk about my reporting in Anna, Illinois, and sundown towns like Anna. He complains that black soldiers are treated better than white soldiers. And it was sitting right next to the population sign. Ive heard about some version of this sign from a few people in Anna, but I have yet to find physical proof of it a document, a photo, anything. I dont think Compton in Los Angeles is a sundown town. People around the area, not just in Anna, have called him derogatory names based on his race, he said. Growing up near Phoenix, Smith said her familys friends called them the Huxtables, a reference to the upper-middle class black family of The Cosby Show. She feels her parents, and the high standards they set, prepared her well for her current life: If anybody was going to come to Anna, God picked somebody that had the right credentials to be able to come here, she said. You can try, Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America,", Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism,. The night after James was killed, a band of men from Anna headed for a nearby quarry, which employed a number of black men. Smith still tears up thinking about it. The proposal was never brought up for a vote, in part because commissioners said they didnt believe it was their job to address such concerns. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, WSB-TV newsfilm . I worked nights for 13 years. 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