Cars pulled up to the parking lot in front of Mount Rushmore in the 1960s.A.C. Shelton/ClassicStock/Getty Images American families loaded up their station wagons and hit the road in the mid-20th century. Families explored the US as the country was changing, exposing them to different ways of living. But road-tripping in the '60s, a time of segregation, was not as easy if you were African American. With the cross-country interstate materializing, automobiles on the rise, a booming economy, and a growing travel bug, families loaded up their station wagons and hit the road in the mid-20th century.Road tripping in the '60s and '70s was popular and affordable, and for most, these cross-country vacations were the first time families were experiencing life outside of their own towns.
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