50 Along Route 66, storytellers examined the iconic route’s impact on residents in Amarillo, Texas, and Albuquerque, New Mexico. “I thought I knew most of what there was to know about this landscape,” wrote Dr. Shanna Peeples in her blog post. “But what would happen if I slowed down and began to try to develop new eyes for this old road?” The Route 66 storytellers sought to explore the intersection of race, culture, mobility, and oil and gas development from the perspectives of the Indigenous, Black, and Hispanic communities impacted by Route 66. The 2892 Miles to Go project has expanded to include the contingent United States. Hawaiian storytellers have joined A sign commemorates the continued legacy of Black owned businesses in Tulsa that were harmed by violence but not shut down.. excellence. The community was destroyed in the mid1960s when I-94 was built, displacing thousands of African Americans. Tulsa, Oklahoma, storytellers share a part of the city’s history that’s often unacknowledged: the Historic Greenwood District, a prosperous Black neighborhood destroyed during the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. Hundreds of Black people were killed and years of Black success erased. In the following decades, cover-ups and government actions such as the federal highway program, urban renewal projects, and the assertion of emiinent domain spurred generational wealth loss and ongoing trauma for descendants.
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