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 ...

Rush had a restaurant and tourist home operation located on Route 66 listed in the Green Book. Gray was the first African American medical doctor to serve both black and white patients.

The Threatt Filling Station offered refuge for Black travelers driving through Oklahoma. Now, the Threatt family hopes to turn it into a historical center. If you were to travel on Route 66 in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

"Route 66 is truly endlessly fascinating ... Most travelogues in the public eye are written by white people. The “classics” are largely by white men, and black and brown people don’t really ...

believed to be the only Black cemetery along Route 66 and the final resting place of former slaves. The sign will be a beacon to direct folks to downtown Luther. “Those travelers along the ...

On Wednesday afternoon, more than 50 people — members of the Route 66 ... and sign, the nonprofit was able to get the name of the station, Cucamonga Service Station, hand-painted in black ...