Olivia Hooker in a white dress with matching jacket, in a wheelchair. Barack Obama is behind her. They are both smiling to the camera.

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   Hilda Bastian (hildabast@mastodon.online)'s status on Thursday, 15-Feb-2024 22:35:36 JST Hilda Bastian

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   ...Here's another of them: This is Olivia Hooker (1915-2018), when she was honored by Barack Obama in 2015. She was 100 then.

   https://ethicsandsociety.org/2015/08/19/fordham-professor-dr-olivia-hooker-honored-by-president-obama-at-coast-guard-graduation/

   Hooker was a survivor of the Tulsa race massacre, who served in WW2 & used her GI Bill entitlement to get a master's in psychology. She studied learning disabilities & disadvantage, & was a lifelong civil rights activist...

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