How to use in-sentence of “sundown”:
– Loewen’s book mentions that sundown status meant more than just African-Americans not being able to live in these towns.
– He had to wear a monitoring radio bracelet, surrender his passport, not leave Alabama, and remain indoors at his home from sundown to sunup during the bail.
– Essentially any African-Americans who came into sundown towns after sundown were subject to harassment, threats, and violent acts up to and including lynching.
– However, as sociologist James Loewen writes in his book on the subject, it is impossible to precisely count the number of sundown towns at any given time, because most towns have not kept records of the ordinances or signs that marked the town’s sundown status.Loewen 2005, page 218.
– However, Hebrew calendar dates actually run from sundown to sundown.
– It is difficult to confirm sunset towns because the towns did not keep, or do not want to show, official documents stating their status as sundown towns.
– Several other books also show the existence of sundown towns.
– They assume that people reading a Hebrew calendar know the sundown rule.
