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Originally aired on June 13, 2022:
In today’s edition of Bring It On!, hosts, Clarence Boone and Liz Mitchell spend the hour with Dr. Gina Forrest. She has conducted extensive research on Sundown towns in Indiana. Dr. Forrest graduated from Indiana University Bloomington with a Master of Public Health and a Ph.D. in Health Behavior, focusing on Health Inequities. She was a former Chief Diversity Officer with the Indiana Supreme Court.
Sundown towns, also known as sunset towns, gray towns, or sundowner towns, are all-white municipalities or neighborhoods in the United States that practice a form of racial segregation by excluding non-whites via some combination of discriminatory local laws, and intimidation, or violence. The term came from signs posted that “colored people” had to leave town by sundown. The same process also created entire sundown counties and sundown suburbs. The practice was not restricted to the southern states, with New Jersey and other northern states being described as equally inhospitable to black travelers until at least the early 1960s.
Credits:
Today’s hosts are Clarence Boone and Liz Mitchell.
Bring It On’s Executive Producer is Clarence Boone.
Tonight’s Assistant Producer is Liz Mitchell.
The Show Consultant and WFHB News Department Director is Kade Young.
Program Engineer is Chantalle LaFontant.
The original theme music was created by Jamyl Efiom, with additional background tracks by David Baker.
