Study to focus on remaining Green Book sites for black motorists along Route 66

More than any other place in the country, Route 66 in its heyday posed a problem for black motorists. Sundown towns - towns that did not allow blacks to stay within municipal limits after dark - and unwritten rules of segregation made travel through the West unpredictable and dangerous.

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