A dozen “sundown towns” across Los Angeles County used to ban Black Americans from being outside after dark in the mid 1900s.
In the second half of the century, the “white flight” phenomenon led to hundreds of thousands of white residents in those former sundown towns to far-flung suburbs in L.A. County and nearby counties.
Now, decades later, some of those sundown towns that are now home to mostly Black and Latino residents are experiencing a wave of gentrification that is forcing many of them to leave as the cost of living skyrockets…