Alex, founder for this family, appears in rural Louisiana after the end of the Civil War. It is not known if they are related to antoher African American family from Shreveport. As with other African American families, records from their origin are not available, and would be lost to time were it not for recorded family memories.

1. Henrietta Richardson was born on 1 Mar 1868 in Louisiana and died on 21 Nov 1954 in Alameda Co., California at age 86.

General Notes: "After the death of (her husband), Henrietta Parrott,... illiterate, strong-willed and incredibly soft-spoken..., raised their children by herself, living off the farmland that (her husband) had legally owned."

From: Dawn at My Back

Henrietta married Alex Edward Parrott Sr. on 7 Jan 1886 in DeSoto Parish, Louisiana. Alex was born in Mansfield, DeSoto Parish, Louisiana and died in 1906.

General Notes: "...Grew up in Mansfield, an upstate Louisiana hamlet. ... Mansfield consisted of a white-only general store across the street from the Negro-only general store. White men owned both of the stores. .... Houses and run-down shacks with yellowed newspapers shellacked down as wallpaper dotted the farmland surrounding he meagher village. ... Black people's lives sang with fear. The energy of it covered the sky, the air between, and the earth."

From: Dawn at My Back

Children from this marriage were:

   2 M    i. Donnia Libra Parrott was born on 26 Sep 1887 in Mansfield, DeSoto Parish, Louisiana.

   3 M    ii. Frederick Douglas Parrott Sr. was born on 1 Mar 1899 in Mansfield, DeSoto Parish, Louisiana and died on 20 Feb 1974 in Houston, Harris Co., Texas at age 74.

   4 F    iii. Henrietta G. Parrott Houston was born on 6 Mar 1902 in Mansfield, DeSoto Parish, Louisiana and died on 26 Oct 1997 in Alameda Co., California at age 95.

   5 M    iv. Alex Edward Parrott was born on 17 Jan 1904 in Mansfield, DeSoto Parish, Louisiana and died on 17 Dec 1998 in Oakland, Alameda Co., California at age 94.

   6 F    v. Edna Parrott was born in 1905 in Mansfield, DeSoto Parish, Louisiana.

   7 F    vi. Gertrude Parrott Sherwin was born in 1906 in Mansfield, DeSoto Parish, Louisiana and died on 25 Jan 1932 in Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois at age 26.

2. Donnia Libra Parrott (Henrietta¹) was born on 26 Sep 1887 in Mansfield, DeSoto Parish, Louisiana.

3. Frederick Douglas Parrott Sr. (Henrietta¹) was born on 1 Mar 1899 in Mansfield, DeSoto Parish, Louisiana and died on 20 Feb 1974 in Houston, Harris Co., Texas at age 74.

General Notes: "As a young adult...permanently injured his leg working in a sawmill. Crippled with a limp and sixth-grade education, he migrated to Houston from Louisiana. There he successfully restarted restarted his education, and finally graduated with a high school diploma. After his graduation, he found work as a chauffeur.... He then became a Pullman porter. From both jobs, he saved enough money to start dental school in Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee. He enrolled in the very last class of doctors, dentists, and pharmacists who only possessed a high school diploma."

From: Dawn at My Back

Frederick married Mollie Celeste Carroll on 22 Dec 1924 in Harris Co., Texas. Mollie was born on 21 Jan 1900 in Texas and died on 14 Jan 1976 in Los Angeles Co., California at age 75.

General Notes: ".. was a race woman. Being a race man or woman in the 1950s meant you had dedicated your life up uplifting the Negro race. Your decision also meant you had consciously endangered yourself. Your surrounding environment would always be hostile, and perhaps violent, because of your commitment."

From: Dawn at My Back

Children from this marriage were:

   8 M    i. Fred Douglas Parrott Jr. was born on 22 Dec 1927 in Houston, Harris Co., Texas.

   9 F    ii. Carroll Ann Parrott Blue was born on 23 Aug 1943 in Houston, Harris Co., Texas and died on 11 Dec 2019 at age 76.

4. Henrietta G. Parrott Houston (Henrietta¹) was born on 6 Mar 1902 in Mansfield, DeSoto Parish, Louisiana and died on 26 Oct 1997 in Alameda Co., California at age 95.

5. Alex Edward Parrott (Henrietta¹) was born on 17 Jan 1904 in Mansfield, DeSoto Parish, Louisiana and died on 17 Dec 1998 in Oakland, Alameda Co., California at age 94.

Alex married Eola Hall. Eola was born on 27 Jul 1905 in Mansfield, DeSoto Parish, Louisiana and died on 5 Jul 2003 at age 97.

6. Edna Parrott (Henrietta¹) was born in 1905 in Mansfield, DeSoto Parish, Louisiana.

7. Gertrude Parrott Sherwin (Henrietta¹) was born in 1906 in Mansfield, DeSoto Parish, Louisiana and died on 25 Jan 1932 in Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois at age 26.

8. Fred Douglas Parrott Jr. (Frederick Douglas Sr.², Henrietta¹) was born on 22 Dec 1927 in Houston, Harris Co., Texas.

General Notes: Founder/ Director REAL MEN COOK FOUNDATION
Marina Del Rey, California

The "REAL MEN COOK" Foundation's goal is to eliminate the health care disparity gap in the minority community therefore allowing medically underserved and underrepresented minority men and women access to health care, quality of care, preventative, diagnostic, and treatment services.

The Foundation's OPI program tackles the most important and devastating health care issue facing the minority population in the United States -- obesity. Being overweight or obese increases your risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke, breathing problems, arthritis, gallbladder disease, sleep apnea, osteoarthritis and some cancers.

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Foundation executive and gynecologist Dr. Fred D. Parrott was born in Houston, Texas on December 22, 1934. After graduating from Jack Yates High School in 1944, Parrott enrolled at Howard University where he earned his B.S. degree in psychology in 1947. Following the completion of his undergraduate study, Parrott earned his M.S. degree in microbiology at the University of California, Los Angeles. During the early 1950s and during the Korean War, Parrott entered the Medical Service Corps of the United States Army , where he was stationed in Tokyo, Japan for two years while he worked as a bacteriologist. He also opened a tailor shop in Tokyo, fitting servicemen with Hong Kong made shirts. Parrott's first employment in the medical field was working as the territory manager for Wyeth Pharmaceutical. In 1958, Parrott graduated from Meharry Medical College and became a fellow of the University of Minnesota Medical Center Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Parrott moved to Los Angeles, California upon graduating and did an internship at the Los Angeles County Hospital before becoming a fellow at the University of Minnesota. After completing his fellowship, Parrott returned to Los Angles and began private practice.

In 1986, Parrott founded the "Real Men Cook" Foundation, whose mission was to increase the number of minority health care providers by awarding scholarships to students attending Historically Black College and University medical schools in the United States. In 1994, after being diagnosed with prostate cancer, Parrott founded the Real Men Cook Foundation Center for Early Detection of Prostate Cancer. The Foundation's goals expanded to increasing awareness and education of prostate cancer and prevention in inner city communities.

Parrott is a member of the American Medical Association, the National Medical Association, the Los Angeles Country Medical Association and the Charles R. Drew Medical Society. He is also a board member of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology and a founding member of the National Prostate Cancer Coalition. Parrott is the recipient of the Back Heritage Award and President Medal of Honor from Howard University, and was awarded an honorary doctorate from Meharry Medical College.

Dr. Fred D. Parrott was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on July 7, 2007.

http://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/dr-fred-parrott-41

9. Carroll Ann Parrott Blue (Frederick Douglas Sr.², Henrietta¹) was born on 23 Aug 1943 in Houston, Harris Co., Texas and died on 11 Dec 2019 at age 76.

General Notes: Carroll Parrott Blue, a scholar, producer, author and filmmaker with a special interest in the history and revitalization of Southeast Houston neighborhoods, died Dec. 11.

She served as Rice University's 2018 Center for Engaged Research and Collaborative Learning scholar-in-residence at the African American Library at the Gregory School and Fondren Library's Woodson Research Center Special Collections and Archives.

In 2011, as a University of Houston research professor, she was appointed a visiting scholar at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Gwendolyn Fedrick, community coordinator with the OST/South Union GO Neighborhood, recalled Blue's dedication.

"Carroll Parrott Blue brought residents of OST/South Union together in late 2011 to engage us around a vision called 'Creative Placemaking' for a National Endowment for the Arts grant called, 'Our Town,'" Fedrick said.

"From that engagement, she retained a facilitator who helped the civic club leadership form Southeast Houston Transformation Alliance (SEHTA) and invested personal funds to ensure its designation as a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization. Through her efforts, residents and stakeholders were in a prime position to submit an application to the Local Initiatives Support Corporation for a GO Neighborhood grant in partnership with Neighborhood Recovery CDC.

"This partnership continues to connect us today for the protection and revitalization of the OST/South Union community. No one can replace Carroll, but we will continue her legacy through our work, especially encouraging the next generations."

According to Rice University, Blue devoted much of the last four decades to documenting neighborhood histories by bringing together those who lived, worked and studied in those communities.

A decade ago, she employed a then-new technology to preserve the stories of Third Ward. Story mapping plotted the oral histories of residents captured on audio or video on a map of the area. With the help of Rice, she used similar technology to tell stories of Hurricane Harvey.

As a Rice visiting scholar at the Humanities Research Center in 2016 and 2017, Blue collaborated on creating a map that showed a toxic waste dump's alarming proximity to two schools and two parks.

She also created an interactive multimedia project, "The Dawn at My Back: Memoir of a Black Texas Upbringing," a combination book, DVD-ROM, and website. The American Library Association selected "Dawn" as one of the 30 best American Association of University Press publications in 2004.

Blue, a Yates High School graduate, received a B.A. in English Literature from Boston University and an MFA in Motion Picture Production from UCLA. She later linked Yates, the University of Houston and Ryan Middle School faculty and students with design professionals as part of the Third Ward Arts Initiative.

https://defendernetwork.com/news/national/carroll-parrott-blue-remembered-for-neighborhood-commitment/