Photo by Russell Lee, courtesy Library of Congress. 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 blac...
The Ford Piquette Avenue plant, one of the beneficiaries of the MotorCities National Heritage Area. Photo courtesy FordPiquetteAvenuePlant.org. A decades-long effort to preserve some of southeastern ...