COLUMBIA, S.C. – Strom Thurmond Jr. says he is ready to meet his mixed-race half sister, whose relationship to the family was kept secret by his father for nearly eight decades. "We have no ...

(CNN) --An attorney for the family of former U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina confirmed Monday that in 1925, when he was 22, Thurmond fathered a child with a black teenage housekeeper.

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’s closet ... That means that they are Mr. Thurmond’s great-great-granddaughters. This was not really news to me. At family functions, Mr. Thurmond’s relationship with Ms ...

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 ...

(CNN) --An attorney for the family of former U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina confirmed Monday that in 1925, when he was 22, Thurmond fathered a child with a black teenage housekeeper.

COLUMBIA — The late Sen. Strom Thurmond's family on Monday said it "acknowledges" a California woman's claim that she is the illegitimate mixed-race daughter of the one-time segregationist.