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Dear senator : a memoir by the daughter of Strom Thurmond
Title:
Dear senator : a memoir by the daughter of Strom Thurmond
ISBN:
9780060760953
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
New York : Regan Books, c2005.
Physical Description:
223 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
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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.
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