Cullman was a sundown town. It displayed a sign that said “Nigger, don’t the let the sun go down on your head [some versions used a different body part] in this town." Or so the story went.

“Cullman, Alabama is a sundown town. Was, is, ... The late Tuscaloosa News columnist Ben Windham in 2006 interviewed former state Rep. Tom Drake, who grew up in Cullman, about the sign.

For a time, Cullman and Arab were considered sundown towns. ... One former University of Alabama student told Loewen that a similar sign to Cullman’s stood in the town well into the 1990s.

Based on generations of lore of Cullman being a sundown town, Blacks have long been reluctant to go there. I went.

When Cullman County, Ala., was founded in 1873, it was advertised as a place with, quote, "no Blacks and no Indians." Cullman's largest city was a so-called sundown town - a place where Black ...

"A sundown town is one that forbade Blacks, ... including Cullman, posted signs to the effect of 'Whites Only Within City Limits After Dark,' sometimes with far less sanitized language." ...

In 2021, Trump held a rally in Cullman, Alabama, a town that once advertised “No Blacks and No Indians” and warned “n*****, don’t the let the sun go down on your head” for decades.

The claim: Image shows a sundown town in Mississippi that is 'whites only' after dark. Social media users revived a stark reminder of America's history of racism with an image of a sundown town sign.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — In the first episode of HBO’s “Lovecraft Country,” three Black travelers making their way across a 1950s America stop to rest along the side of the road. A white ...

And the county's largest community, also called Cullman, was a sundown town. But Davis says, when coal mines opened near the Colony, Cullman County leaders wanted to bring in the economic benefits.

Joyce Vance, a former U.S. attorney in Alabama, noted that Trump had also held a rally in a sundown town in Alabama in 2021. ... This caught my interest when he chose Cullman, ...