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Sep 23, 2021 · On December 17, 2003 – six months after Thurmond's death – a woman named Essie Mae Washington-Williams (pictured above) publicly announced that she was the love child of the United States' longest-serving senator and his family's black maid, Carrie Butler. At the time of conception, Thurmond was in his 20s and had yet to hold a public ...
The Life and Times of Strom Thurmond. The late senator Strom Thurmond is viewed today mostly as a relic from another time. A Southern politician who was shaped by the Great Depression, World War II, and Jim Crow, Thurmond infamously fought tooth and nail to preserve segregation in his home state of South Carolina. If a distinction is made ...
Aug 29, 2016 · This was a U.S. governor and senator, Strom Thurmond, who holds a record for filibustering that we may be tempted to note as some kind of Olympic event — continuous talking from 8:54 PM on August 28, 1957 to 9:12 PM August 29, 1957. It’s the longest filibuster in American history at 24 hours, 18 minutes. But it is no Olympic event.
Strom Thurmond of South Carolina was a central figure in the political transformation of the South and one of the longest-serving senators in American history. He died in 2003; he was 100 years ...
Dec 4, 2002 · Strom Thurmond, the oldest and longest-serving senator in history, reached his 100th birthday Thursday surrounded by family, friends, Supreme Court justices and leaders of the Senate he helped to ...
On August 28, 1957, Strom Thurmond, then a Democratic United States senator from South Carolina, began a filibuster intended to prevent the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1957. The filibuster—an extended speech designed to stall legislation—began at 8:54 p.m. [a] and lasted until 9:12 p.m. the following day, a duration of 24 hours and ...
Thurmond, (James) Strom. ( b. 5 December 1902 in Edgefield, South Carolina; d. 26 June 2003 in Edgefield, South Carolina ), governor, U. S. Senator, States’ Rights Democratic Party (“Dixiecrats”) presidential candidate, and a leader in developing the Republican Party in the South. Born into a deeply rooted and politically active family ...
