Research Catalog

Title

Race riot 1921 : events of the Tulsa disaster / by Mary E. Jones Parrish.

Author

Parrish, Mary E. Jones

Publication

Tulsa, Okla. : Out on a Limb Publishing, c1998.

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Description

160 p. : ill., ports.; 23 cm.

Summary

Originally privately published in 1922 by Mary Elizabeth Jones Parrish, a black eyewitness and journalist, this documentation and personal memoir of the 1921 Tulsa race riot is here reissued in a new edition with additional material.

Alternative Title

• Events of the Tulsa disaster
• Events of the Tulsa Disaster.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• African Americans > Tulsa
• Riots > Tulsa > History > 20th century
• Race riots > Tulsa
• Fires > Tulsa
• Tulsa (Okla.) > Race relations > 20th century
• Tulsa (Okla.) > Riot, 1921
• Tulsa (Okla.) > Fire, 1921

Note

• Previous ed. published in 1922 as: Events of the Tulsa disaster.
• Includes bibliographical references (p. 136-137).
• Advertisements: p. 141-150.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 136-137) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

My experience in Tulsa -- The emergency hospital -- As a reporter -- Lessons of the disaster -- Testimonials of the Tulsa race riot -- American Red Cross -- Second view of city of ruins -- H.T.S. Johnson, of the Inter-racial Commission -- The history of Mt. Zion Baptist Church -- An exceedingly great faith -- Tulsa's separate school system -- Where are the dead? -- A law firm -- The Jackson Undertaking Co. -- Some of the activities of A.J. Smitherman -- Mme. Geo. W. Hunt -- Mrs. Dora Well -- Mob fury and race hatred as a national danger -- Partial list of losses -- Blair notes on this edition -- About Clarence Love -- Old ads.

ISBN

1891116029

OCLC

• 39207885
• SCSB-12680686

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library