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Dear senator

a memoir by the daughter of Strom Thurmond

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An edition of Dear senator (2005)

Dear senator

a memoir by the daughter of Strom Thurmond

1st ed.
  • 1 Want to read

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.

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Publisher
Regan Books
Language
English
Pages
223

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Dear Senator
2008, HarperCollins
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Dear senator: a memoir by the daughter of Strom Thurmond
2005, Regan Books
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Edition Notes

Published in
New York
Genre
Biography., Case studies.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
973.9/092
Library of Congress
E748.T58 W37 2005, E748.T58W37 2005

The Physical Object

Pagination
223 p. :
Number of pages
223

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3310862M
Internet Archive
dearsenatormemoi00wash
ISBN 10
0060760958
LCCN
2004061387
OCLC/WorldCat
57001906
Library Thing
107543
Goodreads
1262551

Work Description

Breaking nearly eight decades of silence, Essie Mae Washington-Williams comes forward with a story of unique historical magnitude and incredible human drama. Her father, the late Strom Thurmond, was once the nation's leading voice for racial segregation (one of his signature political achievements was his 24-hour filibuster against the Civil Rights Act of 1957, done in the name of saving the South from "mongrelization"). Her mother, however, was a black teenager named Carrie Butler who worked as a maid on the Thurmond family's South Carolina plantation.Set against the explosively changing times of the civil rights movement, this poignant memoir recalls how she struggled with the discrepancy between the father she knew-one who was financially generous, supportive of her education, even affectionate-and the Old Southern politician, railing against greater racial equality, who refused to acknowledge her publicly. From her richly told narrative, as well as the letters she and Thurmond wrote to each other over the years, emerges a nuanced, fascinating portrait of a father who counseled his daughter about her dreams and goals, and supported her in reaching them-but who was unwilling to break with the values of his Dixiecrat constituents.With elegance, dignity, and candor, Washington-Williams gives us a chapter of American history as it has never been written before-told in a voice that will be heard and cherished by future generations.

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