![]() ![]() It wasn’t until the 1960s, when the civil rights movement and federal legislation kept any formal enforcement keeping people from moving into a town based on their race finally began to die out. Loewen, a former sociology professor at the University of Vermont and author of Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism, refers to a town, neighborhood, or community with a wholly white population, created intentionally by systematically keeping out ethnic minorities. It also was featured in the Academy Award-winning 2019 film, “Green Book.” Loewen is professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Vermont and the author of Lies Across America and Sundown Towns, both available from The New Press. ![]() It spurred Victor Hugo Green to write “ The Negro Motorist Green Book” in 1936. The Green Book was a travel guide for Black Americans back then to avoid “sundown towns” and find safe places to rest, shop and eat along the road. The book was published though 1967. ![]() These “sundown towns” were trouble for Black motorists navigating America in the ’40s, ’50s and ’60s. A history of northern racial exclusion demonstrates the pervasiveness of racism throughout the entire United States, analysing how sundown towns in. The Green Book was a resource for Black families in an era when racism, segregation and “sundown towns” were rampant in the United States. This page of the 1956 edition of The Green Book listed hotels and other businesses that offered hospitality to African Americans, including Alberta’s Hotel, owned by Springfield entrepreneur Alberta Ellis. ![]()
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