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The Shame of America's "Sundown Towns" [28min @15:10]

Anna, Ill., is a Sundown Town. Until the 1970s signs such as: 'Nigger, don't let the sun go down on you in Anna' were commonly posted at the city limits. "Anna," in fact, is said to be an acronym for "Ain't No Niggers Allowed." Laurie Taylor looks at the phenomenon of 'white only' towns in the US, where the informal practice of barring blacks (and sometimes other groups) after nightfall is astonishingly wide.
Read entire article at BBC Radio 4 "Thinking Allowed"