In one night in 1919, a mob rounded up almost the entire Black population of a Kentucky town, about two hundred people — marched them to the railway station at gunpoint, and put them on a train out. The town stayed almost entirely white for the next seventy years. Corbin, Kentucky. The trigger was a rumour about an assault on a white railway worker. There had been no investigation. Several hundred men went house to house through the night. People were pulled out of bed. They were given minutes. Possessions, homes, businesses, tools — all left where they stood. They were held at the depot and loaded onto a train in the morning. Historians call them expulsions, or racial cleansings. It is one of the main ways sundown towns were created — not by signs, but by a single night. They were given minutes to leave the only homes they had ever known. Corbin is the kind of history our book was created to uncover—when an entire Black community was driven out, and the world moved on as if nothing happened savvypurchase.samcart.com/pr…