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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1930, 44 of the 89 counties spanning Route 66 were sundown towns — all-white communities that banned Black people inside the city limits after dark. Skip to ...

2 min to read When it was dedicated Nov. 26, 1926, Route 66 was 2,451 miles of paved and unpaved state roads, bundled together and renamed. Signs with the black-and-white U.S. 66 shield led ...

While enthusiasts had been wanting the signs for a long time, the Route 66 Commission launched a concerted effort about 18 months ago to make the project happen, said Ken Busby, executive director ...