Final Word: 'My Father's Name Was James Strom Thurmond'
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The mixed-race daughter of the late Strom Thurmond held a press conference to announce that she was the illegitimate of the segregationist senator from South Carolina who died in this past summer at the age of 100. Essie Mae Washington-Williams, who is 78 and a retired school teacher, felt the time had come to end the secrecy to which she had agreed all of her father's life. Thurmond had an affair with Carrie Butler when he was 22 and she, his family's maid, was 16. While Washington-Williams did not like her father's racial views, she did not want to hurt his political career and accepted his financial support throughout her life.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 2003
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Thurmond Family Struggles With Difficult Truth
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The announcement by Essie Mae Washington-Williams that she is the illegitimate, racially-mixed daughter of the late Sen. Strom Thurmond provoked a variety responses, positive and negative, from members of his South Carolina family. There was praise for the reaction of his oldest son and namesake, J. Strom Thurmond Jr., who is only 31 and a US attorney for South Carolina. Thurmond Jr., who is expected to seek higher office, welcomed Washington-Williams to the family and indicated he would like to meet her.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 2003
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Alabama's Top Judge Defiant On Commandments' Display
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Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore continues to defy a federal court order to remove his 5,280-lb. monument of the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the State Supreme Court building. The 12:00 AM Thursday deadline passed without any progress in the case. On Wednesday, the US Supreme Court refused to hear his appeal. The state now faces a daily fine of $5,000 if the judge does not remove the stone monument from the lobby.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 2003
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