{"id":20233,"date":"2021-02-16T23:59:57","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T04:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpa.ca\/?p=20233"},"modified":"2022-05-05T16:55:04","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T20:55:04","slug":"black-history-month-olivia-hooker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpa.ca\/fr\/black-history-month-olivia-hooker\/","title":{"rendered":"Black History Month: Dr. Olivia Hooker"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><a id=\"Hooker\" class=\"anchor\" name=\"Hooker\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"min-height: 130px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"textwrapleft\" style=\"max-width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/cpa.ca\/docs\/File\/BlackHistory\/Olivia Hooker.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Olivia Hooker with President Obama\" \/><strong>Dr. Olivia Hooker<\/strong><br \/>\nAs a psychologist, Dr. Olivia Hooker worked to change the unfair treatment inflicted upon inmates at a New York State women&#8217;s correctional facility. In 1963 she went to work at Fordham University as an APA Honours Psychology professor, and was an early director at the Kennedy Child Study Center in New York City.\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"accordions-20230\" class=\"accordions-20230 accordions\" data-accordions={&quot;lazyLoad&quot;:true,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;20230&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;collapsible&quot;:&quot;true&quot;,&quot;heightStyle&quot;:&quot;content&quot;,&quot;animateStyle&quot;:&quot;swing&quot;,&quot;animateDelay&quot;:1000,&quot;navigation&quot;:true,&quot;active&quot;:999,&quot;expandedOther&quot;:&quot;no&quot;}>\r\n                <div id=\"accordions-lazy-20230\" class=\"accordions-lazy\" accordionsId=\"20230\">\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n\r\n    <div class=\"items\"  style=\"display:none\" >\r\n    \r\n            <div post_id=\"20230\" itemcount=\"0\"  header_id=\"header-1580324481504\" id=\"header-1580324481504\" style=\"\" class=\"accordions-head head1580324481504 border-none\" toggle-text=\"\" main-text=\"About Olivia Hooker\">\r\n                                    <span id=\"accordion-icons-1580324481504\" class=\"accordion-icons\">\r\n                        <span class=\"accordion-icon-active accordion-plus\"><i class=\"fa fas fa-chevron-up\"><\/i><\/span>\r\n                        <span class=\"accordion-icon-inactive accordion-minus\"><i class=\"fa fas fa-chevron-down\"><\/i><\/span>\r\n                    <\/span>\r\n                    <span id=\"header-text-1580324481504\" class=\"accordions-head-title\">About Olivia Hooker<\/span>\r\n                            <\/div>\r\n            <div class=\"accordion-content content1580324481504 \">\r\n                <p>Olivia Hooker was six years old when she lived through the 1921 Tulsa race massacre in the Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma. She went on to become the first Black woman in the US Coast Guard, joining during World War II in February of 1945. She later went back to the Coast Guard, joining the Auxiliary in Yonkers, NY at the age of 95 in 2010.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"textwrapright\" style=\"max-width: 350px;\" src=\"\/docs\/File\/BlackHistory\/Olivia Hooker 2.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nHer GI benefits allowed her to get a Masters from Columbia University, followed by a PhD in psychology at the University of Rochester.<\/p>\n<p>As a psychologist, Hooker worked to change the unfair treatment inflicted upon inmates at a New York State women's correctional facility. In 1963 she went to work at Fordham University as an APA Honours Psychology professor, and was an early director at the Kennedy Child Study Center in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>Honoured by the American Psychological Association, the Coast Guard, President Obama, and a Google Doodle, Olivia Hooker died in 2018 at the age of 103.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/BlackHistoryMonth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#BlackHistoryMonth<\/a><\/p>\n            <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n            <\/div><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><a id=\"Hooker\" class=\"anchor\" name=\"Hooker\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"min-height: 130px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"textwrapleft\" style=\"max-width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/cpa.ca\/docs\/File\/BlackHistory\/Olivia Hooker.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Olivia Hooker with President Obama\" \/><strong>Dr. Olivia Hooker<\/strong><br \/>\nAs a psychologist, Dr. Olivia Hooker worked to change the unfair treatment inflicted upon inmates at a New York State women&#8217;s correctional facility. In 1963 she went to work at Fordham University as an APA Honours Psychology professor, and was an early director at the Kennedy Child Study Center in New York City.\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"accordions-20230\" class=\"accordions-20230 accordions\" data-accordions={&quot;lazyLoad&quot;:true,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;20230&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;collapsible&quot;:&quot;true&quot;,&quot;heightStyle&quot;:&quot;content&quot;,&quot;animateStyle&quot;:&quot;swing&quot;,&quot;animateDelay&quot;:1000,&quot;navigation&quot;:true,&quot;active&quot;:999,&quot;expandedOther&quot;:&quot;no&quot;}>\r\n                <div id=\"accordions-lazy-20230\" class=\"accordions-lazy\" accordionsId=\"20230\">\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n\r\n    <div class=\"items\"  style=\"display:none\" >\r\n    \r\n            <div post_id=\"20230\" itemcount=\"0\"  header_id=\"header-1580324481504\" id=\"header-1580324481504\" style=\"\" class=\"accordions-head head1580324481504 border-none\" toggle-text=\"\" main-text=\"About Olivia Hooker\">\r\n                                    <span id=\"accordion-icons-1580324481504\" class=\"accordion-icons\">\r\n                        <span class=\"accordion-icon-active accordion-plus\"><i class=\"fa fas fa-chevron-up\"><\/i><\/span>\r\n                        <span class=\"accordion-icon-inactive accordion-minus\"><i class=\"fa fas fa-chevron-down\"><\/i><\/span>\r\n                    <\/span>\r\n                    <span id=\"header-text-1580324481504\" class=\"accordions-head-title\">About Olivia Hooker<\/span>\r\n                            <\/div>\r\n            <div class=\"accordion-content content1580324481504 \">\r\n                <p>Olivia Hooker was six years old when she lived through the 1921 Tulsa race massacre in the Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma. She went on to become the first Black woman in the US Coast Guard, joining during World War II in February of 1945. She later went back to the Coast Guard, joining the Auxiliary in Yonkers, NY at the age of 95 in 2010.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"textwrapright\" style=\"max-width: 350px;\" src=\"\/docs\/File\/BlackHistory\/Olivia Hooker 2.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nHer GI benefits allowed her to get a Masters from Columbia University, followed by a PhD in psychology at the University of Rochester.<\/p>\n<p>As a psychologist, Hooker worked to change the unfair treatment inflicted upon inmates at a New York State women's correctional facility. In 1963 she went to work at Fordham University as an APA Honours Psychology professor, and was an early director at the Kennedy Child Study Center in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>Honoured by the American Psychological Association, the Coast Guard, President Obama, and a Google Doodle, Olivia Hooker died in 2018 at the age of 103.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/BlackHistoryMonth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#BlackHistoryMonth<\/a><\/p>\n            <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n            <\/div><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blackhistory2021fr","category-psychprofilesfr"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-02 05:45:04","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpa.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpa.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpa.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpa.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpa.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20233"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cpa.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26820,"href":"https:\/\/cpa.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20233\/revisions\/26820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpa.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpa.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpa.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}