When Olivia Hooker was 6, mobs of white men destroyed her community in Tulsa. As her home was wrecked, she quietly hid under a table. Later, she dedicated herself to fighting for civil rights — and became the first black woman to join the Coast Guard.
In her StoryCorps interview in September 2018, Olivia Hooker talked about her experience as the first black woman to enter the Coast Guard.In her StoryCorps interview in September 2018, Olivia Hooker talked about her experience as the first black woman to enter the Coast Guard.Olivia Hooker was a 6-year-old in Tulsa, Okla., when a race riot destroyed her community as well as her own home.
As they wrecked her own home, she and her three siblings quietly hid under a dining room table, careful not to make a sound. Hooker was also the first African American woman to join the Coast Guard. She talked about that part of her life in an interview at StoryCorps in 2018; she died just two months after it was recorded, at 103 years old.
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