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“Sundown towns” or “sunset towns” were common from Ohio to Oregon and well into the South. By local ordinance, people of color had to leave the town by sundown. Some had local laws making it a crime for a non-white person to be in the town after dark (they could work as maids or laborers, just not live there.) Some communities became “sunset towns” after people of color were driven out, had their property destroyed, or their lives threatened.
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