Editing Boley, Oklahoma (section)

===Timeline===
[[File:Boley Masonic Temple.png|thumb|Three-story [[Freemasonry|Masonic Lodge]], constructed in 1912.]]
1897, by this time Oklahoma law required black children to be educated separately from white children<ref name=crow>{{Cite web|url=http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/scripts/jimcrow/insidesouth.cgi?state=Oklahoma|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927133753/http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/scripts/jimcrow/insidesouth.cgi?state=Oklahoma|url-status=dead|title=Jim Crow Laws: Oklahoma|archivedate=September 27, 2011|accessdate=July 25, 2021}}</ref>
* 1903 Founding<ref name="EOHC-Boley"/>
* 1905 [[Booker T. Washington]] tours the newly incorporated Boley.  Newspaper ''The Boley Progress'' starts publication.<ref>[http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83025077/ ''Boley Progress''], Library of Congress</ref>
* 1925, State Training School for Incorrigible Black Boys was located in Boley; it would become the John Lilley Correctional Center.
* 1926 ''The Boley Progress'' ceases publication.
* 1932 Armed citizens of Boley thwart a bank robbery attempt by members of [[Pretty Boy Floyd]]'s gang.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1546/is_n6_v9/ai_16646685|title=American Visions: Boley's bank robbed! - famous 1923 bank robbery in the all-black town of Boley, Oklahoma - includes related article about the history of Boley|date=January 27, 2005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050127022250/http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1546/is_n6_v9/ai_16646685|accessdate=July 25, 2021|archive-date=January 27, 2005}}</ref>
* 1939 [[Fort Smith and Western Railway|Fort Smith & Western Railroad]] and Boley go bankrupt.
* 1975 [[Boley Historic District]] given landmark status.