A national data set of historical US sundown towns for quantitative analysis
Published in Scientific Data, 2024.
In this recent publication, David Rigby, Mike Esposito, Hedy Lee, David C. Van Riper, Margaret T. Hicken, and Stephen A . Berrey present a new national data set of historical sundown towns linked to contemporary spatial information. Sundown towns are places that once enacted legal or conventional practices meant to restrict the movement or residency of Black people and other people of color within their borders.
These data present an important resource for scientists conducting quantitative studies of the durable legacies of historical racism, enabling granular analyses of the long-term consequences of an understudied form of historical racial control.
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