Dr. Olivia Hooker, Coast Guard pioneer, race riot survivor laid to rest [View all]

Coast Guard pioneer, race riot survivor laid to rest


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In this Dec. 5, 2018 photo, U.S. Coast Guard members participate in funeral services for Olivia Hooker in White Plains, N.Y. Hooker, the first African-American woman to serve in the U.S. Coast Guard and one of the last survivors of a race riot in Oklahoma, has been laid to rest with military honors. Hooker passed away on Nov. 21, 2018, at the age of 103. (Petty Officer 3rd Class Steve Strohmaier/U.S. Coast Guard via AP)

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In this Dec. 5, 2018 photo, Rear Adm. Andrew Tiongson, commander First Coast Guard District, passes a folded American flag to a family member during funeral services for Olivia Hooker in White Plains, N.Y. Hooker, the first African-American woman to serve in the U.S. Coast Guard and one of the last survivors of a race riot in Oklahoma, has been laid to rest with military honors. Hooker passed away on Nov. 21, 2018, at the age of 103. (Petty Officer 3rd Class Steve Strohmaier/U.S. Coast Guard via AP)


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In this Dec. 5, 2018 photo, Rear Adm. Andrew Tiongson, commander First Coast Guard District, passes a folded American flag to a family member during funeral services for Olivia Hooker in White Plains, N.Y. Hooker, the first African-American woman to serve in the U.S. Coast Guard and one of the last survivors of a race riot in Oklahoma, has been laid to rest with military honors. Hooker passed away on Nov. 21, 2018, at the age of 103. (Petty Officer 3rd Class Steve Strohmaier/U.S. Coast Guard via AP)

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In this Dec. 5, 2018 photo, U.S. Coast Guard members past and present from around the country stand around a photograph of Olivia Hooker during her funeral service held in White Plains, N.Y. Hooker, the first African-American woman to serve in the U.S. Coast Guard and one of the last survivors of a race riot in Oklahoma, has been laid to rest with military honors. Hooker passed away on Nov. 21, 2018, at the age of 103. (Petty Officer 3rd Class Steve Strohmaier/U.S. Coast Guard via AP)


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FILE- In this May 10, 2005, file photo survivor of the 1921 Tulsa race riots, Dr. Olivia Hooker, 90, gives her personal account of the of the historic race riot at a briefing before members of the Congressional Black Caucus and other leaders on Capitol Hill in Washington. Hooker, one of the last survivors of the race riot, one of the worst race riots in U.S. history, has died at age 103. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)


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FILE- In this May 10, 2005, file photo survivor of the 1921 Tulsa race riots, Otis Granville Clark, 102, left, acknowledges the introduction, as fellow survivors, Dr. Olivia Hooker, 90, right, and Wess Young, 88, second left, and his wife, Cathryn Young, second right, give their applause at the start of a briefing before members of the Congressional Black Caucus and other leaders on Capitol Hill in Washington. Hooker, one of the last survivors of the race riot, one of the worst race riots in U.S. history, has died at age 103. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)




WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — The first African-American woman to serve in the U.S. Coast Guard and one of the last survivors of a race riot in Oklahoma has been laid to rest with military honors. A funeral was held Wednesday in White Plains, New York, for Olivia Hooker. She was 103 years old when she died on Nov. 21.

The Coast Guard says Hooker enlisted in the Coast Guard Women’s Reserve in 1945 and rose to the rank of yeoman second class before her discharge in 1946. Hooker also survived one of the worst race riots in U.S. history. She was 6 years old in 1921 when the late-spring riot destroyed much of a Tulsa neighborhood that had been known as “Black Wall Street.”

Hooker was a psychologist and a professor of psychology at Fordham University, where she retired at age 87 in 2002.

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