'Sundown towns' linked to lingering racial bias

A sundown town is a community that prohibited Black people from staying within its borders after dark or from owning property. This was done through laws, signs, threats, harassment or violence. More than 150 years after the end of slavery and a generation after Civil Rights reforms, a new study finds that places designated as "sundown towns" in the past are more racist today.

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