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This weekend and next, visitors can learn more about Oklahoma City’s first Black physician and other area pioneers and enjoy local art during a public tour of the 1937 home built by Dr. Wyatt H. Slaughter and his wife, Edna Randolph Slaughter.
Oklahoma City – The three-story home built by one of the city’s first Black physician soon came to be a symbol of the family’s generosity, says the owner of the
The Coltrane Group has planned a Historic Black Towns Bus Tour to Boley on June 25, the final day for the town to host the Smithsonian’s “Crossroads: Change in Rural America” exhibit.
Dr. Melissa N. Stuckey is assistant professor of African American history at Elizabeth City State University in North Carolina. She is a specialist in early twentieth century black activism and a scholar committed to engaging the public in important conversations about African American history. She is the author of several magazine and journal articles including “Boley, Indian Territory: Exercising Freedom in the All Black Town,” published in 2017 in the Journal of African American History and "“Freedom on Her Own Terms: California M. Taylor and Black Womanhood in Boley, Oklahoma” in...