“Sundown towns,” communities in which African Americans were not welcome, were fairly common in Arkansas during much of the first half of the twentieth century. Towns sometimes advertised the absence of African Americans as a draw for new settlement. Shown here is an early twentieth-century advertisement for the town of Siloam Springs (Benton County) proclaiming “no negroes.”
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