Last survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot — and the first black woman to join the Coast Guard — dies at 103

The last known survivor of the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 — and the first black woman to enlist in the Coast Guard — died at the age of 103 on Thanksgiving Eve. Tulsa’s KFOR reported that Dr. Olivia Hooker was just six years old “when her entire neighborhood was decimated in the...

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