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Boley and the all-Black towns
1903
Boley, Oklahoma
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More than fifty all-Black towns were founded in Oklahoma, more than in the rest of the country combined, on the idea of a state where Black Americans could govern themselves. Booker T. Washington called Boley the most enterprising Negro town in the United States. Statehood in 1907 brought Jim Crow with it.
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