Death of Olivia Hooker-- Part 2: Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre

She was one of the last-known survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre in what is often regarded as the deadliest episode of racial violence in American history.

This event, and others like it, are rarely mentioned mentioned in history books.

In interviews about it, she recalled the rampage through the eyes of a child.  Her father had been the owner of a department store in the community of Greenwood, a center of commerce known as the Black Wall street. When the mob marched on Greenwood, burning houses and shooting people in the street, her mother hid her and her siblings under a big oak dining room table as their home was being ransacked.

"We could see what they were doing, she recalled.  They took everything they thought was valuable.  They smashed everything they couldn't take.  My mother has [opera singer Enrico] Caruso records she loved.  They smashed the Caruso records."

They also poured oil over her grandmother's bed but didn't light it because members of the white mob were still in the house.

"It took me a long time to get over the nightmares.  I was keeping my family awake screaming."