@article{290878,
      author = {Washington-Williams, Essie Mae, and Stadiem, William.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/290878},
      title = {Dear senator : a memoir by the daughter of Strom Thurmond  /},
      publisher = {Regan Books,},
      abstract = {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.},
      recid = {290878},
      pages = {223 p. :},
      address = {New York :},
      year = {2005},
}