She Hid From A Racist Massacre At 6 - Then Did This At 24 On May 31, 1921, six-year-old Olivia Hooker was at home in Tulsa, Oklahoma's Greenwood District when white men carrying torches entered her family's backyard. According to her interviews with NPR and Radio Diaries, her mother hid Olivia and her siblings under the dining room table, covering them with the longest tablecloth she could find, and instructed them not to make a sound.