Dear senator
Subtitle: a memoir by the daughter of Strom Thurmond
By: Essie Mae Washington-Williams and William Stadiem.
Contributors: Stadiem, William.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Regan Books
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
Subjects: Thurmond, Strom, 1902- -- Family; Washington-Williams, Essie Mae, 1925-; Thurmond, Strom, 1902- -- Relations with women; Thurmond, Strom, 1902- -- Relations with African Americans; Daughters -- United States -- Biography; Racially mixed people -- United States -- Biography; Legislators -- United States -- Family relationships -- Case studies; Southern States -- Race relations -- Case studies
Genres: Biography.; Case studies.
Description: 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.