Olivia Hooker, civil-rights trailblazer, turns 102

[TomSea]

Olivia Hooker, civil-rights trailblazer, turns 102
Karen Roberts, The (Westchester County, N.Y.) Daily News

GREENBURGH, N.Y. — When you're Olivia Hooker, it's okay to talk about age, especially since she's achieved so much and still has an engaging smile and strong mind.

Hooker turned 102 years old on Sunday — sharing a birthday with President Abraham Lincoln and an incredible history of being a great American patriot.

Hooker was born in 1915 in Muskogee, Okla.

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At just six years old, Hooker lived through the 1921 Tulsa race riots — which she calls a massacre. White rioters destroyed 35 city blocks of the prosperous Greenwood district, known as Tulsa's Black Wall Street, over a 24-hour period.

The seminal race riot resulted in 300 deaths, injuries of more than 800 people and displaced over 10,000 black people from their homes.

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That Tulsa race riot was unfathomable as to how bad it was.