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Dear senator : a memoir by the daughter of Strom Thurmond
- Title
- Dear senator : a memoir by the daughter of Strom Thurmond / Essie Mae Washington-Williams and William Stadiem.
- Author
- Washington-Williams, Essie Mae, 1925-
- Publication
- New York : Regan Books, c2005.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Stadiem, William.
- Description
- 223 p., [16] p. of plates : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- The illegitimate daughter of the late Senator Strom Thurmond breaks her lifelong silence. Her father, the longtime senator from South Carolina, was once the nation's leading voice for racial segregation; he mounted a filibuster against the Civil Rights Act of 1957 -- in the name of saving the South from "mongrelization." Her mother was Carrie Butler, a black teenager who worked as a maid on the Thurmond family's South Carolina plantation. The memoir reveals a brave young woman who struggled with the discrepancy between the father she knew -- financially generous, supportive of her education, even affectionate -- and the old Southern politician who refused to acknowledge their relationship in public.
- Subjects
- Thurmond, Strom, 1902-2003 > Family
- Racially mixed people > United States > Biography
- Daughters > United States > Biography
- Washington-Williams, Essie Mae, 1925-
- Legislators > United States > Family relationships > Case studies
- Southern States > Race relations > Case studies
- Thurmond, Strom, 1902-2003 > Relations with women
- Thurmond, Strom, 1902-2003 > Relations with African Americans
- Call Number
- Sc E 05-212
- ISBN
- 0060760958
- LCCN
- 2004061387
- OCLC
- 57001906
- Author
- Washington-Williams, Essie Mae, 1925-
- Title
- Dear senator : a memoir by the daughter of Strom Thurmond / Essie Mae Washington-Williams and William Stadiem.
- Imprint
- New York : Regan Books, c2005.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Added Author
- Stadiem, William.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 05-212