When she was a young girl, Olivia Hooker had an idyllic life — as idyllic as a 6-year-old black child could have in Tulsa, Okla., in the segregated 1920s. Her parents owned a home and her father ran a prominent clothing store in Greenwood, a prosperous black community that had been dubbed "The Black Wall Street."All that changed almost 90 years ago — May 31, 1921 —when Greenwood was burned, bombed, and looted by a white mob spurred on by a report of the supposed attack of a young white woman by a black man.When it was over, the Tulsa Race Riot, as it came to be known, resulted in the death of 300 African Americans and the burning of more than 1,000 black homes and businesses.At one point, the bullets rained down so hard on their roof, Hooker thought it was hail falling on a sunny day.The rioters, she says, were so thorough, they took the time to burn her doll clothes."Our mother always told us the mob broke all her Caruso records," says Hooker, who is 97 years old and lives in Greenburgh.After the violence subsided, the family salvaged what they could and relocated to Ohio, where Hooker went to high school and graduated from Ohio State University before embarking on a remarkable career, as the first black woman in the Coast Guard, then as an educator.Today, Hooker is one of the last survivors of the Tulsa riot, and a plaintiff in a lawsuit against the city of Tulsa. In 2007, she testified about her experiences before Congress, saying: "As a child, I believed in every word of the Constitution, but after the riots happened, I realized the Constitution did not include me."Here are ten things you didn't know about Olivia Hooker:1.She's got the energy of a much younger person. Hooker was in Manhattan recently, at the Women's History Month celebration in Manhattan's Federal Hall. She also regularly travels around the country to attend screenings of the documentary, "Before They Die!" which tells the story of the riots and the subsequent attempt to get justice for the survivors, including Dr. Hooker and Charles Ogletree, a Harvard Law professor, who took the case to the Supreme Court for reparations, which were eventually denied. "I never expected to be here this long," she says with a laugh, "and I try to do what I can. We have to repair ourselves and get more reverence for our history."2.For years, she was a member of a book club at the Greenburgh Library, yet, the one thing she never saw in a book? The riot. "While I was teaching, I saw only one reference to it in a text book."3.She's a ground-breaker: At Ohio State University, her sorority, Delta Sigma Theta, worked to overturn a ban on black women in the maritime service and succeeded.4.And a role model: When no one enlisted, Hooker stepped up. After being rejected by the Navy on a technicality, she wrote to the Secretary of the Navy, James Forrestal, and he agreed there was no reason she couldn't join.But since she didn't, as she says, "want to have my body in the charge of people like those," who had initially rejected her, she went across the hall to another branch of the service and became the first black woman in the U.S. Coast Guard.5.Hooker used her G.I. benefits to get a master's degree in psychology from Columbia University, and eventually earned a doctorate in psychology from the University of Rochester, where she was one of two black female students.6.She was a long-time professor at Fordham University, retiring in 1985.7.Hooker was a much beloved psychologist at the Fred Keller School in Yonkers, retiring in 2002. "It was rather thrilling working there," she says."It was a place that was very invested in helping young children."8.She was honored to be the Grand Marshall in White Plains annual Juneteenth celebration last year.9.Hooker was among the first inductees to Westchester's The Spirit of Women Archive in 2009. It's dedicated to celebrating the accomplishments of Westchester County's black women.10.She looks back on her life with a positive attitude, not anger: "Our parents always said to us to try to make things better, not to get revenge, and that's an example we kept all these years."