Olivia Hooker, the first Black women in the U.S. Coast Guard and one of the last survivors of the 1921 Tulsa race riots, has died.
Her goddaughter, Janis Porter, told the Associated Press that Hooker died Wednesday at their home in White Plains, New York. She didn’t provide a cause of death.
Hooker was 103.
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