Mary Jones Parrish

Biography

Mary Elizabeth Jones Parrish (1892–1972) was an African American journalist, typist and survivor of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre. Parrish kept a record of the events of the race riot and gathered eyewitness accounts from survivors. Her book, Events of the Tulsa Disaster is one of the most comprehensive records of the events that took place during the two-day-long white supremacist terrorist massacre.

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