When Dan Shenk began researching the sundown town history of his city, Goshen, Ind., he was surprised how much information he found.
He read about it in sociologist James Loewen’s book, Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism. The book defines a sundown town as “any organized jurisdiction that for decades kept African Americans or other groups from living in it.”
Goshen is home to a large Anabaptist population and many Mennonite . . .
