Parrish, Charles H., Jr.
Birth Year : 1899
Death Year : 1989
In 1951, Charles H. Parrish, Jr. was the first African American faculty member at the University of Louisville (U of L) after the segregated school, Louisville Municipal College for Negroes, was closed. Parrish was also the first African American faculty member at a white school in the South. A sociologist, he chaired the Sociology Department. Parrish was also a civil rights activist. The Charles Parrish, Jr. Papers are at the U of L. A Kentucky Historical Marker [#2008] has been placed at the U of L Belknap Campus in his honor. For more see History of Blacks in Kentucky, by G. C. Wright; and The Charles H. Parrishes, by L. H. Williams. Listen to the Charles H. Parrish oral history (including transcript) at the University of Louisville Libraries.
Charles H. Parrish, Jr. oral history at the University of Louisville Libraries.

See photo image of Charles H. Parrish, Jr. at the University of Louisville website.
Subjects: Activists, Civil Rights, Education and Educators, Sociologists & Social Scientists
Geographic Region: Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky