I grew up in a ‘sundown town’ in Ohio – an all white community where African Americans were implicitly required to leave before sundown each day. This was never verbalized or codified, but everyone somehow knew it. Our neighbor was overtly racist; he actually had a full size Swatstika flag…
I am a White woman who grew up on the Southwest Side of Chicago in the ’50’s. Back then Ashland Avenue was “the Dividing Line”. Blacks were pretty much confined to the east side of Ashland Avenue while Whites had the broad spaces from west of Ashland out to the…