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TL;DR after Reconstruction we had blacks living, working, and owning property in almost every zip code in the country. Loewell goes into detail on this in the book.
And then almost simultaneously country-wide the blacks were violently evicted, their properties stolen, etc. They were blamed for economic distress because obviously their existence in the community was taking away from the white residents :rolleyes: so that was used as justification to kick them out, then they used the local police to keep them out.
Some communities went as far as to organize to be incorporated so they could apply for federal funding for a Sheriff which they used to enforce keeping blacks out after sundown.
And many town/city ordinances that followed were carefully done to not be officially on the books. It was pretty dirty. So much of it only existed in living memory that has now been lost because the people are dead, but he was able to get elderly people who worked for these municipalities to go on the record about what the local laws and ordinances were and how they enforced them