Olivia Hooker was a 6-year-old in Tulsa, Okla., when a race riot destroyed her community as well as her own home. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] In less than 24 hours, mobs of white men destroyed more than 1,000 homes and businesses in the Greenwood District, an affluent African American neighborhood of Tulsa. It’s estimated as many as […]
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Olivia Hooker, Tulsa Race Riot Survivor, Dies At 103 | NPR
Olivia Hooker was one of the last surviving witnesses of the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921, and was the first African-American woman to join the U.S. Coast Guard.
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Meet The Last Surviving Witness To The Tulsa Race Riot Of 1921 | NPR
“It was a neighborhood where you could be treated with respect…”
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