![]() But for now, here's an example we've selected to You'll be able to customize this plan, choosing your own airportsĪnd flights. Put together a flight itinerary with actual airports. To give you a better estimate of real-life travel, we've Waiting for our flight, and making it to the destination. To account for all the extra travel time getting to the airport, Plane and just wanted to know the time in the air from city to city.īut for most of us, we're going to be flying on a commercial airline In the quick calculation above, we assumed you had a private Into account all these factors to get a more accurate estimate Scroll down to see a more realistic calculation that takes Include how many minutes to get to your local airport, waitįor security, board and taxi on the runway, land at the otherĪirport, and get to your destination. In that case, your travel time would really need to This is a relatively short flight in a private plane, but you might be planning to book a commercial flight. Your plane flies much faster than a car, so the flight time is about 1/3th of the time it would take to drive. The straight line flight distance is 17 miles less than driving on roads, which means the driving distance is roughly 1.1x of the flight distance. ![]() "as the crow flies" which is calculated using an iterative Shortest distance is actually the "great circle" distance, or Because of the curvature of the Earth, the Again, we seek your aid.Now let's assume you have a private jet and you can fly in theįastest possible straight line between Orlando, Florida and We hardly claim to have information on every town in the U.S. Please note: if a town is not listed, that does not mean it is not a sundown town. If you know of a town that has gotten over its past, also tell us so, with specific data if you have it. On this website is a small article, “ How to Confirm Sundown Towns“, with ideas to help you. So if you know a town was a sundown town, kindly email us telling us so, with specific data if you have it. As well, that’s a reason to confirm every sundown town, even if it no longer keeps people out. That’s one reason why all former sundown towns should take Loewen’s three-step program or another formal step to put their white supremacist pasts behind them. However, like some other “recovering” sundown towns, it still displayed “second generation sundown town problems”, in this case an overwhelmingly white police force that still engaged in “DWB policing.” By 2014, when racial conflict famously erupted there, it was 67% black, so it was certainly no longer a sundown town. Ferguson, MO, was a sundown town between 19. ![]() And of course, a town may have been sundown once, but now is not. Some towns are not and never were sundown towns but are listed for other reasons. Look over the information provided and come to your own conclusion. If, for example, a black family tried to move in, encountered considerable hostility, and left, that would qualify the town as “sundown.” Note that some sundown towns kept out Chinese Americans, Jews, Mexican Americans, Native Americans, even Mormons. ![]() “On purpose” does not require a formal ordinance. Also, institutionalized persons (in prisons, hospitals, colleges, etc.), live-in servants (in white households), and black or interracial children (in white households) do not violate the taboo. “All white” is in quotes because some towns allowed one black family to remain when they drove out the rest. It is an entire community (or even county) that for decades was “all white” on purpose. Just click on a state to see an alphabetical list of all the sundown towns we know about, think may been sundown towns, and have managed to get up onto the site.Ī sundown town is not just a place where something racist happened. Welcome to the world’s only registry of sundown towns. Embarrassing Questions about “Standardized” Tests.Loewen’s Work on “Standardized” Testing Used by Others.Using Research Information to Help a Sundown Town Overcome Its Past.How to Research and Teach About Sundown Towns.Alphabetical Map of Sundown Towns by State.Using the Sundown Towns Database Menu Toggle.Civil Rights Movement to Modern Times: c.Teaching Slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction.Native American Issues, Including the Explorers.On the Landscape, In Public History Menu Toggle.Useful Quotations about History and Social Justice.Works Inspired or Influenced by Lies My Teacher Told Me.Causing Change With Lies My Teacher Told Me.Contact Jim Loewen to Speak to Your Group.In College and Graduate School Menu Toggle.Teachers’ Corner: Teaching with Lies My Teacher Told Me.Resources for Teaching with Lies My Teacher Told Me.Alternatives to the Usual Fat Textbooks.Using Lies My Teacher Told Me and Teaching What Really Happened.
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