La Crosse, Wisconsin, Pledges To Transcend Its Sundown Town Past On December 8, 2016, the mayor and former mayor of La Crosse, Wisconsin, signed passed a resolution to acknowledge and transcend its past as a sundown town. Earlier, on October 27, 2016, La Crosse's Human Relations Council met before a large audience at City Hall and heard James Loewen speak on sundown towns, watched a video by Jennifer DeRocher, a graduate of U. WI LAX, on La Crosse as a sundown town, and heard the mayor give an apology for that history. Between 1890 and 1940, more than 150 towns and counties in Wisconsin became sundown towns -- places that were "all-white" on purpose. La Crosse was one of these towns. To be sure, it stopped enforcing its ban both formally and informally some years ago, but this resolution clearly moves La Crosse beyond its sundown past. I recommend it as a model for other former (or persisting) sundown towns in Wisconsin and across the United States. December 8, 2016 - La Crosse Tribune October 27, 2016 - La Crosse Tribune OFFICIAL PROCLAMATION FROM MAYORS KABAT AND MEDINGER Public history "on the ground" helped La Crosse transcend its sundown past. La Crosse mentions its sundown past in its Wikipedia entry. All former sundown towns should do this.