He’s also active in the Oklahoma Conference of Black Mayors, and Lima regularly takes a turn at hosting the bi-monthly meetings. Anybody in Lima who is willing to volunteer ends up on several ...

The once thriving all-Black town of Tullahassee, Okla., was ravaged by government policies that divested it and other Black communities.

The town was officially incorporated in 1905 as one of 50 “All Black Towns” in Oklahoma. It was advertised for former slaves to find a home.

A bike ride to visit Oklahoma's 13 historic all-Black towns kicked off from Tulsa’s Greenwood District on Tuesday morning.

Boley is the largest and most well known of the all-black towns of Oklahoma. The town was named after J. B. Boley, a railroad official of the Fort Smith and Western Railway.

One of Oklahoma’s all-Black towns that’s still standing is looking to transform the town’s trajectory, brick by brick. Boley is a town that’s carefully curating its story, one historic ...

Tullahassee, located in Wagoner County, is the oldest surviving all-Black town in Oklahoma, and revitalization efforts have started to restore it back to its glory days.

These freedmen helped to create at least 50 all-Black towns in Oklahoma. Cymone Davis is the former town manager of Oklahoma's oldest historically Black town, Tullahassee.

Shirley Nero conducts tours of Oklahoma’s historic all black towns. The Clearview Reunion takes place June 16 and 17, 2017.

Not all of them are the same. Some hold a history like none other, including the town of Boley, which is one of the state’s original “All Black” towns.