The Disturbing Legacy of California’s Sundown Towns

Surprisingly, there were many such towns in liberal California

Anita Durairaj
Lessons from History
5 min readJan 28, 2021

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Photo by Santi Fox on Unsplash

A few years ago, I remember driving from San Francisco to Los Angeles taking a direct route on the main highway. Somehow, I lost my way in the dark and stumbled onto some small roads that seemed to lead to these tiny little towns in the middle of nowhere.

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