THE NATION MUST AWAKE: My Witness to the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921

On May 31, 1921, Parrish was reading at home with her daughter in Tulsa's affluent Greenwood district, known nationally as Black Wall Street. 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. Photos.