Career
Parrott was a former member of the North Carolina General Assembly, where he was chairman of the Committee on Constitutional Amendments, and one of the founders of Arendell Parrott Academy, which was named for his son who died in 1961, and served as its first president. He also served as a director of the controversial Pioneer Fund from 1973 to 2000. 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.
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