Death of Olivia Hooker in 2018: Among the First U.S. Coast Guard Women, in SPARs

I have been writing about Olivia Hooker in my Cooter's History Thing blog this past week.

She is quite a remarkable black woman.  She died in 2018 at the age of 103.  As such, she had to overcome the fact she was black and a woman to achieve what she did in life.  And, that is just what she did.

First, she was one of the last survivors of the Tulsa Race Riot/Massacre of 1921 and then she attended college, getting her bachelor's, master's and PH.d.

During World War II, she was turned down for service in the Navy, then went on to join as one of the first women in the Coast Guard's SPARs.

Then she went on to a long career of teaching at Fordham University.

For more information on her life, go to my Cooter's History Thing blog.

Her life would definitely make a good subject for a movie.  This is a woman who really overcame.

--GreGen