44 out of the 89 counties that lined Route 66 were all-white communities known as “sundown towns”—places that banned black people from entering city limits after dark. Some posted signs that ...

Colorful street signs with the names ... city's checkered past outside Route History, a reopened museum highlighting Black stories around historic Route 66. "I love how they expanded it ...

America's Route 66 is the ultimate symbol of freedom and mobility, but before the 1960s the motorway could be fraught with danger for black travellers ... while his white colleagues ate inside ...

Gina Lathan, one of the owners of Route History located in a former Texaco gas station near the Fifth, Sixth and Ninth street alignments of historic Route 66, said the hope is to roll out the ...

CHICAGO (CBS)-- If you ever plan to motor West to Dell Rhea's Chicken Basket in Willowbrook, the absence of the iconic neon sign, that has been a beacon along Route 66 for 71 years, might make you ...

The famous Route 66 runs through ... the dollars into Route 66 so that small business owners all across our state are going to reap the benefits of it." The black and white markings are 21-feet ...