Friday 23 November 2018

Olivia Hooker, one of the last survivors of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, dies at 103

Olivia Hooker called it “the catastrophe,” the notorious 48 hours of fire and death that leveled “Black Wall Street” in Tulsa, Okla. She was 6 at the time of the Tulsa rampage, which erupted on May 31, 1921, when a white lynch mob descended on the courthouse where a black teenager was being held.

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from latimes.com - Los Angeles Times https://ift.tt/2zmr6d8

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