Strom Thurmond's biracial daughter sheds life of secrecy

[ElsewheresDaughter]

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The daughter grew up in a house without indoor plumbing, rode the back of the bus and attended a college for blacks only.

The father was raised in a stately home with black servants - one of them her mother - and later became South Carolina's governor and ran for president, espousing racial segregation.


One family, two Americas.


The story of Essie Mae Washington-Williams, the biracial daughter of the late Sen. Strom Thurmond, reveals how two people, bound by blood and duty, lived separate, unequal lives. They developed a limited relationship that, despite the anguish it caused her, she kept secret his entire life.


"I did love my father. He was very good to us," Washington-Williams, 79, says in an interview to promote today's release of her autobiography, Dear Senator: A Memoir by the Daughter of Strom Thurmond.

[Ian David]

1. We're taking financial advice from Repugs on Social Security...

Strom Thurmond lived something like... what... 120 years?

And Thurmond's estate is "officially valued at $1.48 million."

How does rich white lawyer who served in congress since before Lincoln leave behind only $1.48 million?

These are the people who are telling us that social security will die unless we invest it in the Enronomy.

[Moderator]

2. locking, headline is incorrect and it's a dupe

Strom Thurmond's biracial daughter sheds life of secrecy

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