It's not easy to talk about Edmond's past as a "sundown town" unwelcome to Black people. But Edmond is talking about it, and amending public records.
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According to history, sundown towns were cities or communities that kept out African Americans or other groups, implementing racial segregation through discriminatory laws, intimidation ...
Cullman? Nah. Because it was once a “sundown” town, they’d say. I was only peripherally familiar with the term, to be frank. Even being a history junkie. Even being from Oklahoma ...
History is not always pretty, the city council acknowledged. “The truth about Edmond being a sundown town, about having an active Ku Klux Klan chapter, and about how Edmond was promoted as all ...