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Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Strom Thurmond's black daughter: a symbol of America's complicated racial history

Essie Mae Washington-Williams lived for 87 years. But, in her own words, she was never "completely free" until she could stand before the world and say out loud that Strom Thurmond, the one-time segregationist South Carolina senator, was her father.



http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/wp/2013/02/05/strom-thurmonds-black-daughter-a-flesh-and-blood-symbol-of-americas-complicated-racial-history/?tid=pm_politics_pop

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