A truth and reconciliation coalition addressing our community’s history as a Sundown Town.
What is a Sundown Town?
We seek to write a new ending to our story as a Sundown Town, one of becoming a community in which everyone can feel safe, respected, and at home.
Sundown Towns were communities that purposefully excluded African Americans and other racial minorities from living in, or simply passing through, their community through a culture of fear, violence, and intimidation.
OUR MISSION
We are community members of Grants Pass who seek to reconcile our history as a Sundown Town in order to create a new identity as a Sunrise Community.
OUR VISION
What is a Sunrise Community?
A Sunrise Community is a place that has engaged in a reconciliatory process around their history as a Sundown Town. We can’t change our
past, but we can always change our relationship to it.