Pioneering woman in Coast Guard honored in NYC

[The Patriot]

Pioneering woman in Coast Guard honored in NYC

03-12-2015 06:55 PM

In 1945, Olivia Hooker, a 30-year-old black woman from Tulsa, Oklahoma, joined the U.S. Coast Guard. The now-Dr. Olivia Hooker holds a PhD in psychology, worked until she was 87, and just turned 100 in February. But 70 ago when she enlisted she became the Coast Guard's first African-American woman on active duty. Thursday, Coast Guard brass honored her by naming a dining hall on Staten Island in ...

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