Comments on: Golf at Sundown: Segregation in America http://savageminds.org/2005/11/10/golf-at-sundown-segregation-in-america/ Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:06:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Barbara Clowers http://savageminds.org/2005/11/10/golf-at-sundown-segregation-in-america/comment-page-1/#comment-2254 Barbara Clowers Tue, 29 Nov 2005 04:21:20 +0000 http://savageminds.org/?p=294#comment-2254 My grandfather lived in Graysville Tennessee, near Dayton, infamous for the 'monkey trial' . They did not have a "sundown" policy. They were much more subtle. One black person or family could move into town. They could go about their business and the whites didn't give them a hard time but they naturally didn't socialize. As grandad explained it, colored folks are just naturally social and all the white folks had to do was make sure a second colored family never moved in. Eventually, the colored folks moved on. I remember seeing a billboard on the outskirts of a little town near Loudon, Tennessee that actually said, "Nigger don't let the sun set on you in our town." I think it first said you were welcome to stop by when passing through, but... This was probably in 1962-63. I was a teenager at the time and racism was the norm but that billboard shocked me. I never saw another one. My grandfather lived in Graysville Tennessee, near Dayton, infamous for the ‘monkey trial’ . They did not have a “sundown” policy. They were much more subtle. One black person or family could move into town. They could go about their business and the whites didn’t give them a hard time but they naturally didn’t socialize. As grandad explained it, colored folks are just naturally social and all the white folks had to do was make sure a second colored family never moved in. Eventually, the colored folks moved on.

I remember seeing a billboard on the outskirts of a little town near Loudon, Tennessee that actually said, “Nigger don’t let the sun set on you in our town.” I think it first said you were welcome to stop by when passing through, but… This was probably in 1962-63. I was a teenager at the time and racism was the norm but that billboard shocked me. I never saw another one.

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