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Apr 15, 2007 · In the early twentieth century Boley, Oklahoma was the largest predominantly black town in the United States. Boley was officially opened for settlement in 1903 in Creek Nation, Indian Territory along the Fort Smith and Western Railroad.
Boley is a town in Okfuskee County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 1,091 at the 2020 Census. [4] Boley was incorporated in 1905 as a predominantly Black pioneer town with persons having Native American ancestry among its citizens. [5]
BOLEY. Located halfway between Paden and Castle in Okfuskee County, Boley is the largest and most well known of the more than fifty All-Black towns of Oklahoma and one of only thirteen still existing.
Sep 23, 2019 · Though Boley prospered, the Black towns in the west unfortunately couldn’t stave off white greed and mistrust forever. When Oklahoma entered the union as a Jim Crow state, it was only a matter of time before these prosperous Black businessmen and farmers were disenfranchised.
The community of Boley, in the Creek Nation of Indian Territory, or what is now Oklahoma, was one of thirty black towns founded in the West after the Civil War and settled by immigrants from the South and Middle West. Blacks first arrived in Oklahoma as the slaves of Cherokees and Creeks.
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Boley, Indian Territory, is the youngest, the most enterprising, and in many ways the most interesting of the negro towns in the United States. A rude, bustling, Western town, it is a characteristic product of the negro immigration from the South and Middle West into the new lands of what is now the State of Oklahoma.
Volume 102, Number 4 Fall 2017 African American Migration and Mobility After the Civil War, 1865–1915
