Marion A. Parrott

Marion Arendell Parrott (23 August 1918 – 27 October 2000) was an American lawyer.

• James Marion Parrott, The Citadel Sphinx Yearbook, Class of 1939, page 255.
  James Marion Parrott, The Citadel Sphinx Yearbook, Class of 1939, page 255.

Marion Arendell Parrott was the second son of William Thomas and Elizabeth Waters Parrott from Kinston, North Carolina. Parrott graduated in 1839 from The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina, and served during World War II with the United States Army 101st Airborne Division. He took part in the Battle of Normandy and was wounded and captured in northern France. He escaped from a prison camp in occupied Poland during 1945 and made his way to Russia. From there he returned to his unit in France and took part in the final advance into Germany at war’s end, at which point he was discharged as a Major.

In a recent history of the press coverage of the U.S. civil rights movement, Parrott is described as a "white supremacist who wanted to mount a challenge to the Daniels family's Raleigh News & Observer." He was unsuccessful in convincing Tom Waring, another segrationist and a South Carolina journalist, to found a competing newspaper.

References

• Begos, Kevin (December 11, 2002). Benefactor With a Racist Bent: Wealthy recluse apparently liked the looks and potential of Bowman Gray's new medical-genetics department. Winston-Salem Journal
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