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Mary E. Jones Parrish

Mary E. Jones Parrish
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.


King Mob Rule: On a First-Person Account of the Horrific Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921

Mary E. Jones Parrish Remembers and Mourns the Destruction of Tulsa’s Black Community
June 1, 2021  By Mary E. Jones Parrish
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