The Nation Must Awake: My Witness to the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921

An eyewitness account compiled by a woman who survived the Tulsa race massacre of 1921, Mary Parrish fled into the night under a hail of bullets with her young daughter and unwittingly became witness to one of the greatest race tragedies in American history. Parrish’s first-person account-along with the recollections of dozens of others compiled immediately following the tragedy, with meticulous attention to detail that transports readers to those fateful days-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 community lost to flames. 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.

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