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Strom Thurmond who kept her parentage secret for more than 70 years has died. Strom Thurmond Meets His Daughter.

Strom Thurmond S Black Daughter A Symbol Of America S Complicated Racial History The Washington Post

Tue 16 Dec 2003 0536 EST.

. The family of the late Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina acknowledged on Monday that Essie Mae Washington-Williams a retired teacher living in Los. Strom Thurmond there was a rush to transform. Essie Mae Washington-Williams the mixed-race daughter of one-time segregationist Sen. On Monday Thurmonds family released a statement acknowledging Williams claims.

South Carolinas spiteful white supremacist senator had a soft spot for his secret black daughter. She was born in 1925 after Thurmond then 22 had an affair with a 16-year-old black maid who worked in his familys Edgefield SC home. James Strom Thurmond Sr. He represented South Carolina in the Senate from 1954 until 2003 the year he died at age 100.

December 5 1902 June 26 2003 was an American politician military officer and attorney who represented South Carolina in the United States Senate from. A Memoir by the Daughter of. The late Strom Thurmond the Southern US senator who once led the charge for racial segregation had a daughter by a black woman who once. Essie Mae Washington-Williams the mixed-race daughter of one-time segregationist Sen.

Her black mother worked as a maid for the senator27s family. December 2003 brought some astounding news to the world legendary South Carolina Sen. February 1 2005. -- Essie Mae Washington-Williams the bi-racial child the late South Carolina Sen.

When Essie Mae Washington Williams revealed that she was the mixed-race daughter of the late US. While her mother who was black served as the Thurmonds maid she had an affair with the. Essie Mae Washington-Williams is the daughter of the late Sen. Strom Thurmond was the father of a 78-year-old daughter that.

December 2003 brought some astounding news to the world legendary South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond who kept her parentage secret for more than 70 years. Strom Thurmond was the father of a 78-year-old daughter that the world knew. Strom Thurmond has passed away and cannot speak for himself the Thurmond.

Thurmond in his public pronouncements was hardly passive on the topic of race. Thurmonds oldest child born when he was a 22-year-old man and her mother Carrie Butler a 16-year-old black maid in his fathers house had kept the senators secret an open one.