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 ...

the other was a Black leader who staged a landmark protest. On Tuesday at 7:19 p.m., Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) surpassed the late South Carolina segregationist Strom Thurmond’s longstanding record ...

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.

Think of the Thurmond household in 1925. Here was Carrie Butler–a poor, black, female–16 years old. In contrast, Strom was older and the scion of a prominent family. His power was in inverse ...

Strom Thurmond of South Carolina ... a 15 or 16-year-old Black teen who was a domestic servant for his family. Thurmond was 22 when the girl was born. On one occasion in 2000, Short sat with ...

Strom Thurmond ... sex or national origin. In 1971, Thurmond became the first member of the Southern congressional delegation to hire a Black aide — Thomas Moss, who worked on Thurmond ...

In an effort to thwart a key civil rights matter, Senator Strom Thurmond spent 24 hours ... a child with Carrie Butler, his family’s 16-year-old Black housekeeper. His biracial daughter, Essie ...

Several speakers at a pair of public forums Tuesday and Thursday called for the Strom Thurmond ... daughter with his family’s teenage maid as a young man. Despite Thurmond’s long period ...

Strom Thurmond shouldn’t be ... a mixed-race woman whose mother was the Black maid to the Thurmonds came forward to say she was Thurmond's daughter. Though Thurmond never publicly recognized ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Some recent standouts in University of South Carolina athletics are asking the school to change the name of its showpiece fitness center, arguing that the late U.S. Sen.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Some recent standouts in University of South Carolina athletics are asking the school to change the name of its showpiece fitness center, arguing that the late U.S. Sen.