| Colleen Venters 06/18/2018 |
Colleen Venters, born in 1948, reminisces about her time as a child in Boley, Oklahoma. She discusses what it was like being African American in a small community and how integration affected her. She… |
| David Lee 05/27/2011 |
David Lee, born in 1962 in Okemah, Oklahoma, was reared in Boley, Oklahoma. His grandfather moved the family to Boley in the 1930s and the Lee family became a prominent family in the community. David graduated… |
| Ernest Holloway 08/02/2011 |
Ernest Holloway was born September 12, 1930 in Boley, Oklahoma. He grew up in rural communities around Boley beginning with the community known as the Georgia Line. Holloway attended Boley High School,… |
| Florence Jones Kemp 11/11/2019 |
Florence Jones Kemp was born in 1931 in Boley, Oklahoma, an all-black town at the time. She recalls her childhood and learning to cook from her mother. She explains how she came to open Florence’s Restaurant… |
| Francis Shelton 05/26/2011 |
Francis Marzett Shelton was born in Boley, Oklahoma in 1946 and shortly thereafter her parents, Bennie and Franchie Marzett, moved to California. In 1955 her family returned to a community near Boley called… |
| Henrietta Hicks 04/06/2012 |
Henrietta Hicks was born in Chilesville, Oklahoma, in 1935. At the age of six she moved into Boley, Oklahoma, to live with an aunt, Maggie Ashley. She attended elementary school at Prairie Bell and in… |
| Homer Lee Reynolds 03/02/2012 |
Homer Reynolds was born in Okemah, Oklahoma and was reared in the Boley, Oklahoma community known as Clayton Chapel. He was the eleventh child and there were twelve children in his family. The Reynolds… |
| Mary JoAnn Matthews 05/26/2011 |
Mary "JoAnn" Matthews was born in 1945 in Okfuskee County, Oklahoma in the Chilesville-Clayton Chapel area near Boley. After a few years, her parents moved the family of four to another neighboring community… |
| Theola Cudjoe Jones 05/27/2011 |
Theola Cudjoe Jones was born in 1946 in Castle, Oklahoma, which is located in Okfuskee County. She began school at Oak Ridge and when it closed, she attended IXL, a Rosenwald school at that time. She would… |
| Violet Patterson 04/23/2011 |
Violet Alford Patterson was born in Clearview, Oklahoma, in Okfuskee County in 1927. Her youth was spent in the small community of Little Hill and later in Weleetka. After graduating from Clearview High… |
| William Hunt 05/27/2011 |
William Hunt was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1943 and at the age of six months moved to Chilesville, Oklahoma. Chilesville is one of the smaller communities making up the larger community of Boley, Oklahoma.… |
