Marion A. Parrott
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Marion A. Parrott (23 August 1918 – 27 October 2000) was an American lawyer and activist in conservative causes.
A resident of Kinston, North Carolina, Parrott served on the Pioneer Fund board of directors with fellow North Carolina lawyer Thomas F. Ellis. Ellis' Coalition for Freedom, a part of the Jesse Helms political machine, received $195,000 in Pioneer grants in the 1980s.
According to the biography on the Pioneer Fund website, Parrott 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. [1]
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- ^ Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff, The Race Beat, Alfred A. Knopf: 2006, p. 373.
- 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
- Pioneer Fund Founders and Former Directors
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