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Alice Lee Elliott Memorial Academy: A School for Choctaw Freedmen

Description: Article explores the history of Oak Hill Industrial Academy (also known as Alice Lee Elliott Memorial Academy) one of the only schools that provided education to Choctaw freedmen and other black citizens in the area of Valliant, Oklahoma. Joy McDougal Smith traces the history of the school, from its establishment to closing, and includes details about the people who taught and studied there.
Date: Autumn 1994
Creator: Smith, McDougal Joy
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0993.0101]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Decorating for Pleasant Hill school's fund raising dinner Thursday night are Mrs. Charles Jones and Mrs. William Pugsley, standing."
Date: November 9, 1965
Creator: Wood, Tony
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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