Olivia Hooker Signed Autograph 4x6 Photo Tulsa Race Riots WWII Coast Guard Rare For Sale

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Olivia Hooker Signed Autograph 4x6 Photo Tulsa Race Riots WWII Coast Guard Rare:
$249.99

At DiligentiaGraphsour focus is to source out the best, authentic items and give you expedient andjust service. Our goal is to deliver a five-star experience through promptshipping and communication. Thank you for viewing our sale and feel free toask any questions.

The items for saleare to honor the veterans who served our nation and to expose their storieswhich might otherwise be lesser known.

Hand signed 4x6 inch photo by WWII vet, Olivia Hooker.

The family was living in the Greenwood District of Tulsa onMay 31, 1921, when a group of white men carrying torches entered their home andbegan destroying their belongings, including her sister's piano and her father'srecord player. She and her siblings crouched under a table, hidden by atablecloth, until the men were gone. "It was a horrifying thing for alittle girl who's only six years old," she told Radio Diaries in 2018,"trying to remember to keep quiet, so they wouldn't know we werethere." The attack was part of the Tulsa race riots of May 31 – June 1,1921, in which members of the Ku Klux Klan and other white residents of Tulsadestroyed the Greenwood District—also known as Black Wall Street for theconcentration of Black-owned businesses in the area—killing as many as 300people and leaving more than 10,000 homeless. After the riots, her family movedto Topeka, Kansas, and then to Columbus, Ohio.

Hooker applied to the Women Accepted for Volunteer EmergencyService (WAVES) of the U.S. Navy, but was rejected due to her ethnicity. Shedisputed the rejection due to a technicality and was accepted; however, she hadalready decided to join the Coast Guard. She entered the U.S. Coast Guard inFebruary 1945. On March 9, 1945, she was sent to basic training for six weeksin Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn, New York. Throughout training, Hooker became aCoast Guard Women's Reserve (SPARS) and had to attend classes and pass exams.She was one of only five African-American females to first enlist in the SPARSprogram. After basic training, Hooker specialized in the yeoman rate andremained at boot camp for an additional nine weeks before heading to TheSeparation Center in Boston where she performed administrative duties andearned the rank of Yeoman Second Class in the Coast Guard Women's Reserve. InJune 1946, the SPAR program was disbanded and Hooker earned the rank of pettyofficer 2nd class and a Good Conduct Award

Shipping is donewithin 24 hours of received payment. We ship our items in 6X9 envelopes, sentfirst class with tracking and well packed. We do our best to accommodatespecial shipping requests as needed.

We do accept returnswithin 14 days that has been communicated and approved. We have a 15% fee onitems that are restocked and do pay for return shipping. Refunds are given onceitems are returned in original condition.

On all of our solditems we donate a percentage of profits to the Wounded Warrior project and toWorld War II museum in New Orleans, LA.

Olivia Hooker Signed Autograph 4x6 Photo Tulsa Race Riots WWII Coast Guard Rare

$249.99

Olivia Hooker Signed Autograph 4x6 Photo Tulsa Race Riots WWII Coast Guard Rare

$249.99