L. Joi McCondichie

A Century Walk: 100 Years, 1921-2021

L. Joi McCondichie invites all persons of every background to join with her in A Century Walk: 100 Years, 1921-202. With deep consideration and reflection, McCondichie selected this path because it is the same one her own grandmother once used to flee the destruction of the Tulsa Race Massacre. This community walk will retrace the steps, imagining what those hours must have felt like for fathers and mothers, aunties and uncles, boys and girls as they fled from their burning homes and businesses. McCondichie, however, seeks to use this commemorative walk as a means of both recognizing the past and moving toward a more hopeful future. Planes displaying positive messages will fly above participants, their presence in the air also meant as a call back to the planes that dropped bombs on Greenwood in 1921. Two features of this project also seek to generate economic growth for the community today. The R.O.W. Project is a paid opportunity for community members who are experiencing homelessness or underemployment to provide landscaping services along the path that participants will walk. Artists will also offer performances while pop-up shops and food stalls will be installed at each mile where participants can shop.

A Century Walk: 100 Years, 1921-2021 will take place on June 1, and will go from N. Greenwood Ave. and E. Archer St., along the railroad tracks, to 56th St. North.