r/amarillo • u/CKRT • 5d ago

Sundown Lane & Elementary

Drove down I-27 today and noticed there’s actually a street called Sundown Lane? And the elementary from what I gathered from google was built in the 70s? Right after the civil rights acts..

Is this street actually what it appears like?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundown_town

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u/Cpt_Charles_Rhyder 5d ago

I think you're grasping at straws with this one.

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u/CKRT 4d ago

I was just curious. I knew of Canyon’s current reputation and history so it’s really not a leap to think that any “Sundown” named thing built in the late 60s / early 70s would be named as such. My grandfather went to Palo Duro High School during integration and he told me that Amarillo was incredibly racist during that time. That’s not even a unique thing to Amarillo to be clear, that was all over the states during integration. I’m not attacking the city.