Dear senator : a memoir by the daughter of Strom Thurmond / Essie Mae Washington-Williams and William Stadiem.
2005
E748.T58 W37 2005 (Mapit)
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Title
Dear senator : a memoir by the daughter of Strom Thurmond / Essie Mae Washington-Williams and William Stadiem.
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
0060760958 (alk. paper)
Publication Details
New York : Regan Books, c2005.
Language
English
Description
223 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
E748.T58 W37 2005
Dewey Decimal Classification
973.9/092
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.
Added Author
Stadiem, William.
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