Editing Curfew (section)

== Historical ==

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Curfews have been used since the [[Middle Ages]] to limit uprisings among subordinate groups, including Anglo-Saxons under [[William the Conqueror]]. Prior to the [[U.S. Civil War]], most Southern states placed a curfew on slaves.<ref name="Baldwin">{{Cite journal|first=Peter C.|last=Baldwin|title="Nocturnal Habits and Dark Wisdom": The American Response to Children in the Streets at Night, 1880–1930|journal=[[Journal of Social History]]|volume=35|issue=3|date=Spring 2002|pages=593–611|doi=10.1353/jsh.2002.0002|s2cid=144849322 }}</ref>{{Rp|page=603}}

Modern curfews primarily focus on youth as well as during periods of war and other crisis. In the United States, progressive reformers pushed for curfews on youth, successfully securing bans on children's nighttime presence on streets in cities such as [[Louisville, Kentucky|Louisville]], Kentucky and [[Lincoln, Nebraska|Lincoln]], Nebraska. General curfews were also put into place after crises such as the 1871 Chicago Fire.<ref name="Baldwin"/>{{rp|603–605}}

Wartime curfews were also implemented during the First and Second World Wars. A formal curfew introduced by the British board of trade ordered shops and entertainment establishments to extinguish their lights by 10:30&nbsp;p.m. to save fuel during [[World War I]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Doyle |first=Peter |author-link=Peter Doyle (writer) |date=July 2012 |title=First World War Britain: 1914–1919 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |page=24 |isbn=978-0-7478-1129-9}}</ref>