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The Nation Must Awake - My Witness to the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 (Paperback)
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The Nation Must Awake - My Witness to the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 (Paperback)
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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
into the night under a hail of bullets and unwittingly became
eyewitnesses to one of the greatest race tragedies in American
history. Spurred by word that a young Black man was about to be
lynched for stepping on a white woman's foot, a three-day riot
erupted that saw 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 murdered were
buried in mass graves, thousands were left homeless, and millions
of dollars worth of Black-owned property was burned to the ground.
The incident, which was hidden from history for decades, is now
recognized as one of the worst episodes of racial violence in the
United States. The Nation Must Awake, published for a wide audience
for the first time, is Parrish's first-person account, along with
the recollections of dozens of others, compiled immediately
following the tragedy under the name Events of the Tulsa Race
Disaster. With meticulous attention to detail that transports
readers to those fateful days, Parrish documents the magnitude of
the loss of human life and property at the hands of white
vigilantes. The testimonies shine light on Black residents' bravery
and the horror of seeing their neighbors gunned down and their
community lost to flames. Parrish hoped that her book would "open
the eyes of the thinking people to the impending danger of letting
such conditions exist and in the 'Land of the Free and the Home of
the Brave.' " Although the story is a hundred years old, elements
of its racial injustices are still being replayed in the streets of
America today. Includes an afterword by Anneliese M. Bruner,
Parrish's great-granddaughter, and an introduction by the late
historian John Hope Franklin and Scott Ellsworth, author of The
Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice.
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