description: This is the memoir of Essie Mae Washington-Williams, daughter of the late senator Strom Thurmond. Essie Mae breaks her lifelong silence and tells the story of her life. Until the age of sixteen, Washington-Williams assumed that the aunt and uncle who raised her in PA were her parents. The revelation that her fater was the longtime senator from South Carolina-one the nation's leading voice for racial segregation - - and that her mother was Carrie Butler, the Thurmond family's fifteen-year old black maid, was a shock that would change the course of her life.
title: Dear Senator
titlecomplete: Dear Senator
genres: Historical, Biography, Politics, Memoir, Nonfiction, American History, Biography Memoir, Southern, History, African American
ratings_count: 873
publisher: Harper Collins Publishers