sundown town
n.— «Norman is known by African-American students as a “Sundown Town, because we feel we should be out of town by sundown,” says a student.» —by Robert Mitchell Multicultural Student’s Guide to Colleges Nov., 1996. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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