the laws and practices. Most people I met in Anna, Illinois, wish the racist lore behind the citys name would go away. Sundown Towns redraws the map of race relations, extending the lines of racial oppression through the backyard of millions of Americans and lobbing an intellectual hand grenade into the debates over race and racism today. I hopped into the backseat of Taylors blue station wagon, and a man named Gregory Walker, 69, sat in the passenger seat. Cf Jesse Smollett. Just own it. She knows what A-N-N-A stands for, and she doesnt want to take any chances. Even though it may never have been codified, I found references to the fact that black people werent allowed to live in Anna in newspaper articles from as early as 1903. Our forefathers have gone through and made decisions that werent the greatest things in the world, Miller said. Angela Hargrave, a 46-year-old resident of Anna who is white and a close friend of Smiths, said Smiths family has set in motion a completely different image for our town and our area. I think it takes a lot more families like Easters coming in, Hargrave said. Smith got Facebook messages from people shed never met. There are a bunch that I would recommend avoiding after dark, but that would be for anyone regardless of skin color due to high crime rates. But it was also the home of U.S. Sen. Everett Dirksen, whose support helped ensure the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Research on sundown towns helps people understand the blatant racism that exists in our country, Taylor says. you think you are hearing dinner bells & sirens when it's a long time relic of sundown towns. Im scared that I will be looked at different for entertaining them. These kinds of calculations, she said, can be exhausting. Thank you for the list! Below, a Q&A with ProPublica Illinois reporter Logan Jaffe. I think even he got out when it got too violent. Act like the cameras on, act like somebody is following you, act like somebody is watching you, because nine times out of 10, they are.. The more you talk about it, it just creates that issue more, Max Miller, Union Countys board chairman, told me. [Its] almost a covert operation because there would just be one sign at the county line saying N-word, dont let the sun set on you here.. Some posted. Thats why shes interested in looking at how sundown towns operate. But after a series of incidents that made her feel unsafe in Murphysboro, Smith said, she wanted out. It was, from its founding up until 1968. This still shot actually comes from the 2018 movie "Green Book," which was set in 1962. https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2021/08/26/sundown-towns-black-travel. "Sundown suburbs" could be even larger, such as Glendale, a suburb of Los Angeles; Levittown, on Long . That meant a lot to her. (617) 742-2100 | info@uua.org. If you know of other similar efforts around Illinois, Id love to hear about those as well. Independent sundown towns range in size from hamlets like Alix, Arkansas, population 185, to large cities like Appleton, Wisconsin, with 57,000 residents in 1970. When I met him last year, Hunter was the chief of Annas Police Department, and I was curious whether the A-N-N-A reputation affected how local officials did their jobs. A new ProPublica Illinois story examines the racist legacy of one such town in Illinois called Anna. This part of southern Illinois had at least a half-dozen sundown towns. Ignorance? To my astonishment, I have found 500 sundown towns in Illinois aloneand now estimate that, by 1970, their peak, 10,000 existed in the United States." If you are already discussing your communitys history of racial exclusion, please email me. He didnt lower his voice. He worked odd jobs, according to the 1910 census, and she was a washerwoman, cleaning clothes. He said he hadnt witnessed that kind of public racism in Anna before. "Green Book" was inspired by the true story of a 1962 concert tour by African American pianist Don Shirley (played by Mahershala Ali). Its kind of almost a prison gerrymandering that is happening, Taylor says. 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Some time later, a few students at Anna-Jonesboro High made an Instagram account and anonymously made fun of classmates by posting photos of them along with derogatory captions, Smith said. But after hearing A-N-N-A said aloud that night, I realized my race made me a sort of insider, too. And until people are willing to at least acknowledge that its there, theres not going to be any change.. Im looking forward to reading your thoughts. For much of the 20th century, Anna was almost entirely white, except for a handful of black residents at different times. I think it needs more flavor around here for sure, but everything needs to be more mixed, he said. So was the median house in Kenilworth, the richest suburb of Chicago. This allowed maids and workmen to provide unskilled labor during the day. Everyone else in that restaurant in Anna was white. I always knew I grew up in a pretty racist area, but I went through the list of TX sundown towns on this map and there were 10 within a 30 mile radius of my hometown. 'Sundown towns': Midwest confronts its complicated racial legacy Towns like Utica, Ohio, and Goshen, Ind., are beginning to come to terms with a legacy of racism that has largely evaded. The lights were on at a place called the Brick House Grill, and if you were out on South Main Street on a Friday night in February, chances are, thats where you were going. The green ones with white letters. Illinois Sundown Towns Central IL has many sundown towns. That made her feel like her blackness was seen as a threat. Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism, The New York Times Race/Related newsletter. Or check out the most ghetto cities and the most dangerous cities in Illinois. And when they recounted some of those stories to me, they talked over one another and finished one anothers sentences. Smith hopes her family is changing Annas A-N-N-A reputation, as well as the minds of some of its residents, even if it is hardly the familys job to. "I imagined I would find maybe ten of these communities in Illinois, where I planned more research than in any other single state, and perhaps fifty across the country. In Chicago, she was a recipient of Chicago Filmmakers Digital Media Production Fund for Battle Flag, an interactive documentary which questions the meaning of the Confederate battle flag in America. There was one exception: the Sales family. James Taylor, a 61-year-old known as Big T in Cairo, where he lives, was shopping there on a Saturday afternoon when I met him. Love the map concept. Camila Beineradapted it for the web. However, ALL of the towns in Vermillion, Vigo (Terre Haute), and Parke counties should be on this map. You know how this town is called Anna? he started. On the contrary, between about 1905 and 1968, about 80 percent of all suburbs of Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, and other northern cities went sundown. He declined to be interviewed for this story. There are hundreds of these communities in Illinois. Walker told me about a sign he said used to be posted near Annas city limits. I live in Reynoldsburg, OH and it is NOT a sundown town. This allowed maids and workmen to provide unskilled labor during the day. Its pure fiction. Sundown towns are rare in the South but common in the rest of the country. Sundown towns are communities that for decadesformally or informallykept out African Americans or other groups. Accessed 3 May 2022. These were towns across the United States where black Americans knew they weren't welcome after dark. As I remember, in order to prove to the Anna people that he had been lynched, I think they brought one of his legs back to Anna, Hindman recalled in the 1970s, as part of an oral history project at southern Illinois Shawnee Community College. HAYS, Kansas On the night of Jan. 6, 1869, Luke Barnes, Lee Watkins and James Ponder sat in jail accused of shooting a white railroad worker in this northwest Kansas town. Later that night, I realized what shook me most about our conversation: He didnt pause before he said what he said. about sundown towns across Illinois. Local historians and historical societies can sometimes be reluctant to engage, acknowledge or tell stories about the difficult or shameful parts of their communitys history. Killeen and copperas cove are around ft hood while there is racism here there is so many people of different races that live here and retired here that info might need to be changed. She told her husband that Anna was the place they needed to be. There, children glided on bicycles from the levee road along the Ohio River, down through the intersection where the steel arches stood. Im just sorry we have to talk about that. He added: That is not the Anna I know.. Thank you for your interest in republishing this story. Its okay to put our stories on pages with ads, but not ads specifically sold against our stories. We just learn from each other, Arieh said. https://www.uua.org/files/includes/snippet-important-message.txt, Anti-Racism, Multiculturalism, and Belonging, Forgotten story of America's whites-only towns, Reparations for the 1921 Tusla OK Race Riot, On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-first Century. Overcoming racism's legacy: 100-year-old Peorian recalls overcoming racism to start half-century teaching career. Incorrigible people incapable of empathy or evolution. Taylor said hes noticed more black people in Anna in the past 10 years I take my hat off to that but, he said, changing Annas reputation is going to take a while. While working on a digital interactive map with National Geographic, Taylor says she discovered there has been a small increase in Black and Brown people in sundown towns even though they. But all of that stuff dont get me down. [It looked] just like that, he added. De facto sundown towns existed at least into the 1970s and there may still be towns today that try to keep people of color away. If you are discussing your communitys history of racial exclusion, or if you would like to start, let us know. Things do change. Over the past two years, I visited the town several times to try to understand where Annas history had left the town today. At the time, he was dating a girl who was biracial. There are no laws based on your race. The package took five days to wing it's way f A couple of week's ago I released Worlde , a Wordle type game which requires you to guess the names of countries and major global cit On February 24th last year Russia lauched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Yes there are racist areas but you should have to have something to prove this other then made up accusations. Each of you denying it's not your town isn't experiencing it. The map does not speak for itself, it is a community project, albeit a bit slow to update considering the loss of James Loewen. The name derives from the posted and verbal warnings issued to Blacks that although they might be allowed to work or travel in a community . Though Brumleve said many residents supported the preservation of the Union, Evans support was contingent on the continuation of slavery, and his letters show his increasing contempt for the war as the Lincoln administration took steps toward emancipation. As he told me about Annas origins, he pointed me to a book of letters published in the Jonesboro Gazette, written by the newspapers editor, James Evans, who left his job in 1862 to join the 109th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment for the Union Army but who, along with seven other officers from the 109th, was discharged from the Union Army for disloyalty. Green Book Sites. Your map link has an extra h at the beginning of the address, resulting in an error when you click on it. The night after James was killed, a band of men from Anna headed for a nearby quarry, which employed a number of black men. Its a shame that wording is even out there when it comes to Anna, Hartline said. Then, in a moment that would lodge itself in regional memory, a 23-year-old white woman from Anna was found dead in November 1909 in an alley in Cairo. In fact the database comes with a note which states that there are "too many sundown towns for us to have found them all". They expect factual data, not hearsay. I talked with people going about their lives in the library, the Farm Fresh milk store, the Blue Boar restaurant, the citys park, the Walmart parking lot and other pockets of Anna. Well, it's history and I like to learn. . And most of you can't even stand ten toes down on the reality of this country cause you want to remove history instead.Keep up the good work!! He felt he and his brothers and sisters would thrive. In 1930, 44 out of the 89 counties that lined Route 66 were all-white communities known as "sundown towns"places that banned black people from entering city limits after dark. There are hundreds of these. One woman who works in the area and who is black told me she hates it when shes assigned a shift in the town. They led James to a pair of steel arches that spanned the intersection in the center of Cairos commercial district, which was crowded with thousands of onlookers, most of whom came as word spread about James arrest. Not sure why everyone is interpreting your town being on this map as it being a Sundown Town. Creative Commons License (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). Sorry for all the hate. Her eldest son, Arieh Hart, had an idea. He didnt like it when people assumed he was racist. I don't want it to be conflated with the reality [that] there are serious policies that are very prevalent in progressive cities and states, Taylor says, that are equally destructive and debilitating to the growth and fairness and equality of Black people.''. Nearly everyone I met knew what Anna stands for whether they heard it first as a joke at school or from their grandparents or just from living here long enough. But, he said, its not something people there are proud of. How The Legacy Of Sundown Towns Affects Black Travelers. BuzzFeed News, https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/adeonibada/sundown-towns-racism-black-drivers-tiktok. We came here on the second stop of The Associated Press' road trip across America, a reporting journey that three of us . Taking information from James W. Loewen's database at http://sundown.afro.illinois.edu/sundowntownsshow.php?state=IL, this map gathers together two categories, towns and counties that. Can I touch it? Sundown Towns by State. History and Social Justice, https://justice.tougaloo.edu/sundown-towns/using-the-sundown-towns-database/state-map/. That should tell you something right there. As I drove back into Anna later that day, I passed the sign marking its border and population. Sign up to get ProPublica Illinois investigations delivered to your inbox. Instead, he found hundreds, from neighborhoods on Chicagos North Shore to suburbs in the center of the state to small towns in southern Illinois, such as Anna. A Anna, Illinois B Benton, Illinois C Calhoun County, Illinois Cicero, Illinois D De Land, Illinois Deerfield, Illinois E Effingham, Illinois Eldorado, Illinois G She previously was an embedded mediamaker with The New York Times Race/Related newsletter in collaboration with the documentary showcase POV, in which she reported and produced an audience-driven project confronting the pervasiveness of racism through everyday objects. Hosted by Tougaloo College, Tougaloo, MS, 39174 and facilitated by Pantheon. One boy, Amiyah told Smith, yelled to her, Come on, blackie, and get in the photo. Amiyah looked at him, turned around and walked away. He didnt go with her. Onibada, Ade. Some white parents, particularly upset about the post featuring Arieh, spoke to administrators about it, Smith said. The sisters have a slew of similar stories. In the familys first few months in Anna, Atarah and Amiyah received some naive questions from their white classmates. So stupid to publish this crap. Sundown towns re-entered the spotlight again in 2020 thanks to the HBO series Lovecraft Country. Its before 9 a.m., and Ive already encountered more Abraham Lincoln-related memorials and municipal signage than I thought possible. Get our investigations delivered to your inbox with the Big Story newsletter. People are discussing a history that has been largely forgotten or overlooked. This site was created by Matt Cheney, revised by OddBird, copyrighted by James W. Loewen and heirs (Nick Loewen), and is maintained by Phil Huckelberry and Stephen Berrey. In California, Glendale and Culver City. Tripps 18-year-old son, Gavin, graduated from Anna-Jonesboro High in the spring. He put it all out there for you including the steps you can take to confirm if it is true or not and fully contribute to the map. The whole world., Annas Walmart draws a more diverse crowd. I think the whole world needs to change not just Anna. On the first day of Amiyahs senior year at Anna-Jonesboro High, students gathered before class outside the school for impromptu group photos. The semiconductor industry has brought diversity there. Yet when Smith ran the idea by friends and school guidance counselors, just about everyone asked her the same thing: Dont you know what A-N-N-A stands for? Get ready to tell your congregation's story. The map above shows the new metro system I've been designing for Dallas, Texas. Sundown Towns. South Florida has a . Where were sundown towns in Illinois? Category:Sundown towns in Illinois Pages in category "Sundown towns in Illinois" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. I looked at the one's listed near me and can tell you that it's all fabrication. They want to see racial tensions so they lie. Signs were sometimes posted saying things like, "Whites only within the city limits after dusk," and other times the message was carried by reputation. Some people still do. Hello, people of Illinois and people not of Illinois: Im heading north on the Amtrak Lincoln Service from Springfield to Chicago. You can try, Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America,", Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism,. The proposal was never brought up for a vote, in part because commissioners said they didnt believe it was their job to address such concerns. And I think it has to be said that what your son has done is nothing short of a miracle. Bae, drive fast and keep going, she remembers him saying. While the assertion that sundown towns still exist in America is generally accurate, the above-displayed example does not show sign on display in the United States in 2022. Europeans first came across it in the late 1600s . If one came here from a link, they expected a recent map, not historical data. Winchester. Any website our stories appear on must include a prominent and effective way to contact you. Ashley Lockeproduced and edited this interview for broadcast withTinku Ray. And in 2020, a group called the Defund San Antonio Police Department Coalition issued a travel warning for San Antonio, labeling the city as a sundown town. He didnt look around the room to see whether anyone could hear us. [Publisher's description.] Smith still tears up thinking about it. After 6 p.m., Black people faced the risk of harassment or at worst death. sundown town, also called sunset town, in U.S. history, a town that excluded nonwhite peoplemost frequently African Americansfrom remaining in town after sunset. Thats for Aint No Niggers Allowed. He laughed, shook his head and took a sip of his beer. Stories of intimidation and violence against black people and against white people who tried to employ them in Anna continued for decades after the war. Some residents of Anna describe their town as safe, family-centric and quaint, and contrast these features with the problems they perceive in bigger, less-white neighbors such as Carbondale, a city about 20 miles north of Anna that is home to Southern Illinois University, and Cairo, about 35 miles south of Anna, located at the states southernmost tip. "There was a contagion of ordinances," says Loewen. They laughed about how, sometimes, white people in Anna can be overly nice to them. Giacomazzo, Bernadette. AP Road Trip: Racial Tensions in Americas Sundown Towns. AP NEWS, 20 Apr. You may also be interested in exploring interactive maps exploring the enduring legacy of Redlining Maps on the racial distribution of American towns and cities. James Loewen clearly set it up for us to do further investigation into our towns. (To inquire about syndication or licensing opportunities, contact. (The state of Missouri offered no public response to the NAACP but did make a Black woman the face of its tourism campaign last year.). They are so named because some marked their city limits with placards warning specific groups of people to stay away after the sun went down. The authors of the sundown towns website explain that the first urgent need is for work that confirms or disconfirms probable sundown towns. Our local, county and state police would never tolerate that, and neither would our governor nor the people of our great state. Safety is a priority and this is sadly, still needed. The Weekendest - Real-Time New York City Subway Map shows you the real-time location of trains on New York's vast subway network. As his mother followed the van carrying him and other members of the Anna-Jonesboro wrestling team back into town after the finals, people lined up on Main Street to wave and clap and cheer. Agree the map is kind of worthless. Darrel Dexter, a local historian who lives in Jonesboro and teaches high school social studies in nearby Tamms, said that many of his black students see Anna as a racist place. If people in Anna want their town to shed that reputation, he said, theyll have to reckon with the history of A-N-N-A. It said, No Niggers Allowed, Walker remembered. Before the family moved to Anna, Smith sat her kids down and discussed how to respond if someone called them the N-word, if they were discriminated against at school or if they didnt feel comfortable. As an Indigenous man, sometimes people mistake me for white or simply "forget". But I also feel like it takes all of us that dont feel that way to step forward and to be brave enough to say, No, that is not what were about.. After a white supremacist mob intimidated Black schoolchildren on the banks of Lake Lanier in 1968, a WSB-TV reporter interviewed Cumming citizens about the incident. He calls black people animals. For more information about canonical metadata, You cant edit our material, except to reflect relative changes in time, location and editorial style. These areas have managed to enforce racial segregation through either intimidation or discriminatory local laws, or a combination of both. What ideas do you have for how to keep discussing and addressing sundown towns in our state? It uses live data from Amtrak's Track-A-Train During the colonization of the United States museums and the federal government routinely stole the human remains of Indigenous people. Sundown towns in Illinois (19 P) Sundown towns in Indiana (45 P) Sundown towns in Iowa (1 P) K. Sundown towns in Kansas (10 P) . Many sundown towns held on with a firm grip during the twentieth century. 4500. And under it is another sign that looks just like it, a green sign with white letters. 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