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Title: This history needs to be known...
Review: This history needs to be known. I grew up in a town in Illinois which was highly prejudiced; though there were no signs, everyone knew African-Americans stayed south of the railroad tracks after dark. I began reading about towns I'm familiar with. And I was shocked! There is little to no actual research involved at all! The author simply takes some unidentified person's comment and reports it as fact! I checked a number of towns, both those known to me and those unknown, and the majority of them were treated in the same way! "Someone said..." No respected historian would give a moment's credibility to this author! And that is a shame. There have been "Sundown Towns," but now most readers will shrug off such things because this "authority" is so obviously unreliable. Yes, this history needs to be known, but this author has blown it big time!
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