- Collection:
- Selections from the Collections of the Tubman African American Museum, 1800-2012
- Title:
- Sundown sign
- Date of Original:
- 1900/1968
- Subject:
- Segregation--United States
African Americans--Segregation
Discrimination in public accommodations
Discrimination in housing
Race discrimination--United States
African Americans--History--1877-1964 - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
- Medium:
- information signs
wood
paint - Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Sign.
Signs like this were once a part of America's roadside culture. Found all over the United States, most were posted in the first part of the twentieth century, before the social changes brought on by the civil rights movement. These signs marked the boundaries, and proclaimed the intentions, of "sundown towns." A sundown town was one where African Americans were not permitted to live, and/or were not permitted to be within city limits after dark. Towns like this flourished mostly in the period between 1890 and the passage of the Fair Housing Act in 1968.
Purchase of the Tubman African American Museum. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:tbmn_sftm_tm07292011-398
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/sftm/do:tm07292011-398
- Rights Holder:
- Please contact the Tubman African American Museum re: reproduction and usage. The information contained in this resource may not be re-purposed, reproduced, quoted without proper citation, or offered for sale in any form without the express written permission of the Tubman African American Museum.
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [title of item], Selections from the Collections of the Tubman African American Museum, 1800-2012, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia.
- Extent:
- Original format : 1 sign : wood and paint ; 31 x 162 x 3 cm.
- Holding Institution:
- Tubman African-American Museum
- Rights:
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