Late SC Senator Thurmond's Black Daughter Dies

By NCD on Mon, 02/04/2013 - 10:48pm |

The late Republican Senator Strom Thurmond was the Presidential candidate of the Dixiecrat Party in 1948. The Dixiecrat platform included white supremacy, segregation and states rights as to the 1940's federal ban on lynching and poll taxes. Thurmond once said "all the laws of Washington and all the bayonets of the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, into our schools, our churches and our places of recreation and amusement." He never acknowledged being the father of Essie Mae publicly, he died in 2003.

Essie Mae Washington-Williams, the long-unrecognized daughter of the late U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, died Monday at 87.

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