Sundown Towns

When you think of how bad racism was after the civil war, it's safe to say the south comes to mind.  I came across an article that explained some of the racism from the northern states.  Certain towns from all over developed into sundown towns.  This means that African Americans were not allowed to be outside after dark.  Signs were put up warning them about these laws and they were pretty explicit.  The main goals of sundown towns was to run out the African American race.  Some towns kept on these practices up to the eighties, not as much by the signs, but by doing little things like refusing to allow African Americans to rent out a motel.