Anneliese M. Bruner

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The Author

Anneliese M. Bruner is a writer and editor who advocates for history literacy. She descends from survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and partnered with Trinity University Press in the successful 2021 publication of The Nation Must Awake, her great grandmother Mary Jones Parrish's original narrative and analysis of surviving the Tulsa massacre alongside a new afterword Anneliese authored. She has worked in the corporate, media, and nonprofit sectors, and her writing has appeared in BET Weekend Magazine, Honey Magazine, Savoy Magazine, The Washington Post, CNN, Yes! Magazine, Business Insider as well as other platforms. She is currently marketing a screenplay based on her remarkable ancestor's contribution to history and is the founder of the Mary Jones Parrish Reading Room for History Literacy (upcoming).

The Little Red Book

Became The Nation

Must Awake

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The Nation Must Awake: My Witness to the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 sprang from Events of the Tulsa Disaster.

Mary Jones Parrish survived the attack by a mob of white vigilantes on the Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma, in June 1921 by fleeing her home on foot to safety. The attack, which came to be known as the Tulsa Race Massacre, completely destroyed the successful, independent African American community known nationally as Black Wall Street, brutally erasing years of toil and sacrifice in only a few hours.

Teacher and businesswoman Mary Parrish intrepidly set out to capture the stories of people in the traumatized community and record them, along with her own analysis, for posterity. She originally published her narrative in about 1923 under the title Events of the Tulsa Disaster, which Anneliese Bruner inherited from her father, Willilam Bruner Jr.; it came to be known as The Little Red Book. Others have duplicated it, even selling authentic-looking copies, but only approximately 25 were originally printed. Authentic copies are rare.

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The Little Red Book Became The Nation Must Awake

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The Little Red Book

Became The Nation

Must Awake