Sundown Towns

Sundown towns are white neighborhoods or areas of town that we're segregated where any non white people had to leave by sundown. Often times these rules were enforced by intimidation and violence. These towns became popular during the reconstruction period after the civil war and Jim Crow. Often times these towns solely excluded one particular ethnic group mainly black people. One of the most infamous cases a violence in a sundown town was in Martinsville Indiana in 1968. Carol Jenkins was a 20 year old black girl who was selling encyclopedias door to door after getting laid off from her job. While on her route she was being followed and harassed by a couple of young white guys. After being given sanctuary in to a young white couples house she left to find her friends to head back to Rushville. On her way to the meeting point two other white men got out of their car and jumped her. One man held her hands behind her back while the other stabbed her with a screwdriver in the heart. She bled to death on the  sidewalk. Neither man went to prison.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundown_town
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2002-05-12-0205120236-story.html
Murder of Carol Jenkins - Wikipedia

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