The Nation Must Awake: My Witness to the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 — When Safeguards Fail
What turns a rumor into a catastrophe: the spark itself, or the systems that fail to stop it?
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Using The Nation Must Awake: My Witness to the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 by Mary E. Jones Parrish as our lens, this investigation examines the destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District through Parrish’s eyewitness account, the testimony she collected from survivors, and the historical record she worked to preserve.
Parrish understood the massacre as a warning about mob rule and the failure of democratic institutions to…
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