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Feb 5, 2013 · COLUMBIA, S.C. Essie Mae Washington-Williams, the mixed-race daughter of one-time segregationist Sen. Strom Thurmond who kept her parentage secret for more than 70 years, has died. She was 87...
Feb 4, 2013 · Essie Mae Washington-Williams dies at 87; black daughter of segregationist Strom Thurmond. A week before Christmas in 2003, a retired Los Angeles schoolteacher stood before a phalanx of...
Feb 6, 2013 · Essie Mae Washington-Williams, who lived for decades with a stunning secret — that she was the interracial daughter of Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, a former segregationist who...
Feb 6, 2013 · Essie Mae Washington-Williams, who passed away on Monday, was the daughter of Strom Thurmond, the archetypal Dixiecrat whose passionate defense of segregation as a state’s rights issue and...
Feb 5, 2013 · Associated Press. Essie Mae Washington-Williams, the mixed-race daughter of one-time segregationist Sen. Strom Thurmond who kept her parentage secret for more than 70 years, has died. She was...
Feb 6, 2013 · The truth is this: Essie's mother, Carrie Butler, was a 15-year-old African-American house maid in the Thurmonds' South Carolina home when she became pregnant by Thurmond, who was 22,...
Apr 16, 2005 · Raised by her aunt and uncle, who she believed to be her parents until the age of sixteen; she later discovered her real father was the late Senator Strom Thurmond and her mother was a black...
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