Essie Mae's mother, Carrie Butler, was Black, and Strom was white ... while Senator Strom was six years her senior. The Thurmond family was from South Carolina and were staunch Republicans.

Political observers say that for the Thurmond family, this moment, however painful, has turned into an opportunity. "I think Strom Jr. has scored points, especially in the black community ...

Strom Thurmond, died Monday, her family’s spokesman said ... confirmed in 2003 that Thurmond fathered a child with a teenage black housekeeper in 1925. Her mother, Carrie Butler, worked as ...

Strom Thurmond refused to publicly ... However, because her mother was black, he never acknowledged his child's birth to his family, friends, or the public. Thurmond was a staunch advocate for ...

Thurmond paid his daughter's college tuition when she attended South Carolina State College, an all black university ... whom to the family. Recently, the family of the late Sen. Strom Thurmond ...

What a way to end Black History Month! While researching the Reverend Al Sharpton's family history, it turns out that some ancestors of the civil rights leader were slaves of Strom Thurmond's ...

Washington-Williams was the daughter of Thurmond and his family's black maid. The identity of ... was "a very wonderful person" and called Strom Thurmond Jr. "very caring, and interested in ...

Strom Thurmond took a long steam bath to ... largely unknown to his colleagues and constituents at the time was Thurmond’s Black daughter, Essie Mae Washington-Williams, who was in her early ...

Months after Strom Thurmond's African ... with the same stealth that ushered Thurmond into interracial fatherhood at 22. Thurmond, icon of the Bible-toting, family-values-promoting right, not ...