Shiloh Museum of Ozark History
Shiloh Museum of Ozark History
Shiloh Museum of Ozark History
Sundown Towns in Arkansas
1 hour 7 minutes Posted Mar 8, 2011 at 6:00 pm.
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Dr. Guy Lancaster, editor for the online Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture, discusses his extensive research on "sundown towns" in Arkansas: communities were white residents expelled all or most of the town's African American residents. According to Dr. Lancaster, some 100 towns in Arkansas are suspected to have been sundown towns, most of them in the northern and western sections of the state. Recorded March 8, 2011.