Dear senator : a memoir by the daughter of Strom Thurmond Essie Mae Washington-Williams and William Stadiem

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Washington-Williams, Essie Mae, 1925-

Contributor:

Stadiem, William.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Thurmond, Strom, 1902-2003--Family.

Thurmond, Strom.

Washington-Williams, Essie Mae, 1925-.

Washington-Williams, Essie Mae.

Thurmond, Strom, 1902-2003--Relations with women.

Thurmond, Strom, 1902-2003--Relations with African Americans.

Daughters--United States--Biography.

Daughters.

Multiracial people--United States--Biography.

Multiracial people.

Legislators--Family relationships--United States--Case studies.

Legislators.

Southern States--Race relations--Case studies.

Southern States.

Physical Description:

223 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Regan Books, c2005.

Summary:

The illegitimate daughter of the late Senator Strom Thurmond breaks her lifelong silence. Her father, the longtime senator from South Carolina, was once the nation's leading voice for racial segregation; he mounted a filibuster against the Civil Rights Act of 1957 -- in the name of saving the South from "mongrelization." Her mother was Carrie Butler, a black teenager who worked as a maid on the Thurmond family's South Carolina plantation. The memoir reveals a brave young woman who struggled with the discrepancy between the father she knew -- financially generous, supportive of her education, even affectionate -- and the old Southern politician who refused to acknowledge their relationship in public.

Contents:

Summer of '38

Southern exposure

Reconstruction

Life with father

The governor's daughter

Heart of Dixie

Dear senator

Days of rage

Reckoning.

ISBN:

0060760958 (alk. paper)

9780060760953 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

57001906