JUNE 19-- Route History Shop in Springfield, Illinois, awarded $80,000 grant. This place tells the black experience on Route 66 which was anything but pleasant during the Jim Crow era. This is why the Negro Green Book was so essential to Blacks back then as they were not welcome in many places. Driving 66 was not as much fun for them as it was for white travelers.
They also tell about the 1908 Springfield Race Riot in which at least 16 people were killed.
They are located at 737 East Cook Street.
If it is where I am thinking it is, once, a lot of years ago, it was open as a sandwich shop at a former gas station. But, good for them. The black experience on Route 66 needs to be told.
JUNE 23-- The COVID-19 pandemic prompts cancellation of the world famous Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta for the first time in its history. It started in 1972 and an estimated 850,000 people attend over its nine days.
--RoadDog
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