No Safety After Dark: The Infrastructure Behind Sundown Towns

For generations, Americans have been taught to think about sundown towns as isolated places where signs
warned Black people to leave before nightfall. In No Safety After Dark: The Infrastructure Behind Sundown
Towns, Carina Freeman introduces the concept of the Sundown Infrastructure showing that signs were the visible part of a larger interconnected system that spanned across the United States. Drawing on hundreds of primary sources, historical newspapers, government documents, court recor...