After sunset, Black people had to be out of these hostile sundown towns. It was a matter of life and death in some instances.
Trump received backlash last month after a stop at the Livingston County Sheriff’s Office in Howell, Michigan, where he suggested armed law enforcement be deployed to Detroit during the elections.
This is the history of places where Black people were threatened if caught there after dark.
As long as racism, gerrymandering and redlining exist, so will sundown towns.
