Olive Willey

Olive F. Willey (née Thomas) was an African American civil rights activist and education administrator born in Warwick, Rhode Island. Wiley was a founder and president of the Mt. Hope Day Care (now Mount Hope YMCA Child Care Center).<ref>{{cite news|url=infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=WORLDNEWS&docref=image/v2:14728889532D3B69@EANX-NB-164D95A8FA5405B4@2440696-164D94EB414DAA34@289-164D94EB414DAA34@|title=Mt. Hope Center Plans Workshop|last=|first=|date=19 April 1970|newspaper=Providence Journal|access-date=20 September 2019|page=290|url-access=subscription}}</ref> She met her husband William Wiley, in Providence, Rhode Island in 1921, and they were married in 1925.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/2966889|title=A passion for equality : George A. Wiley and the movement|last=Kotz, Nick.|date=1977|publisher=Norton|others=Kotz, Mary Lynn,|isbn=0393075176|edition=1st ed|location=New York|oclc=2966889}}</ref>

In 1985, Olive and William Wiley were jointly inducted into the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame.<ref name="Olive F. Wiley">{{cite web|url=http://www.riheritagehalloffame.org/inductees_detail.cfm?crit=det&iid=139|title=Olive F. Wiley|publisher=Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame|location=Riverside, Rhode Island|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151227181802/http://www.riheritagehalloffame.org/inductees_detail.cfm?crit=det&iid=139|archivedate=27 December 2015|accessdate=27 December 2015}}</ref>

His son was civil rights activist George Wiley|George Alvin Willey, and his granddaughter is civil rights activist Maya Wiley.

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