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MAY 31, 1921 to JUNE 1, 1921
Audio: Hooker Interview
In 1945, Olivia Hooker became the first African-American to join the U.S. Coast Guard. She later earned a doctorate degree in psychology and became a professor at Fordham University.
And she is said to be the last survivor of the infamous burning of “Black Wall Street” in Tulsa, Okla...
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2018/05/31/615546965/meet-the-last-surviving-witness-to-the-tulsa-race-riot-of-1921
“My father’s store was destroyed,” Hooker told Radio Diaries. “There was nothing left but one big safe. It was so big they couldn’t carry it away, so they had to leave it — in the middle of the rubble.”
The Burning of Black Wall Street in 1921 is considered one of the worst racial atrocities in American history, although it was rarely taught in any history class.
Over two days, 300 African Americans were killed...BLACK WALL STREET BURNED BY WHITE SUPREMACISTS
MAY 31, 1921 to JUNE 1, 1921
Audio: Hooker Interview
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