The Nation Must Awake
My Witness to the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
Published on 25. May 2021
129 pages
978-1-59534-944-6 (ISBN)
Description
Mary Parrish was reading in her home when the Tulsa race massacre began on the evening of May 31, 1921. Parrish's daughter, Florence Mary, called the young journalist and teacher to the window. "Mother," she said, "I see men with guns." The two eventually fled and unwittingly became eyewitnesses to the death of hundreds of Black Oklahomans and the destruction of the Greenwood district, a prosperous, primarily Black area known nationally as Black Wall Street. The Nation Must Awake is Parrish's first-person account, compiled along with the recollections of nearly two dozen others, of what is now recognized as the single worst incident of racial violence in U.S. history.
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Language
English
Place of publication
San Antonio, Texas
United States
Illustrations
Illustrations, unspecified
File size
4,94 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-59534-944-6 (9781595349446)
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Book
07/2021
Trinity University Press,U.S.
€16.50
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Persons
Mary Elizabeth Jones Parrish (1892-1972) was born in 1892 in Yazoo City, Mississippi. She moved to Tulsa around 1919 and worked teaching typing and shorthand at a branch of the YMCA. A trained journalist, Parrish gathered eyewitness accounts from survivors of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre and chronicled her own experience fleeing the violence with her young daughter. Those accounts were published in her book Events of the Tulsa Disaster, which was privately printed in 1922.
Content
- Intro
- Foreword to the New Edition, by John Hope Franklin
- Introduction to the New Edition, by John Hope Franklin and Scott Ellsworth
- Events of the Tulsa Disaster, by Mary E. Jones Parrish
- Preface
- My Experience in Tulsa
- Testimonials of the Tulsa Riot
- Partial List of Losses Sustained by Victims of the Tulsa Riots
- Afterword, by Anneliese M. Bruner
- Contributor Notes
