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Oral history interview with Charles H. Parrish, 1971.

Creator: Parrish, Charles Henry, 1899-1989
Project: Black Journalists Oral History Collection.
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Phys. Desc. :Transcript 25 pages 1 sound file : digital preservation master, WAV files (96 kHz, 24 bit)
Location: Columbia Center for Oral History
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Biographical Note

Dr. Charles H. Parrish, Jr. was born in Louisville, KY in 1899 to educators Charles H. Parrish and Mary Virginia Cook. He attended Central High School in Louisville and enrolled at Howard University. Parrish received his master’s degree in sociology from Columbia University and in 1944 received his Ph.D. in the subject from the University of Chicago. He taught for twenty years at Louisville Municipal College and previously taught at Simmons University. In 1951 he became the first black faculty member at University of Louisville. There he chaired the sociology department from 1959 to 1964 and helped found the Southern Police Institute. Parrish retired in 1969 and passed away in 1989.

Scope and Contents

In this interview conducted by Henry G. LaBrie III, Dr. Charles H. Parrish discusses the importance of the black press as an area of study, the future of the black press, and its successes. Parrish explains his views as a sociologist on the role of the black press in the community, the reporting of black news events by the white press, and the distinctions between the white press and the black press. He further explains why civil rights became an important issue in the 1950s, whether black readers trust more what they read in the black press over the white press, and the role of the black press in integration and desegregation efforts.

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