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Route 66 represents the best of americana to roamin’ rich dinkela and he’s spent the last twenty years on the route documenting its landmarks, past and present. but in all those years, he had never heard of the shamrock court just outside sullivan, missouri. built in the 1940s, the shamrock had ..THE HIDDEN BLACK TOWNS BUILT RIGHT AFTER SLAVERY | FULL DOCUMENTARY | RAISE ..
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