Essie Mae Washington-Williams was born on October 12, 1925 in Edgefield, SC. Best known as the illegitimate African-American child of segregationist senator Strom Thurmond, she published her Pulitzer-nominated memoir, Dear Senator, in 2005.
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About

Best known as the illegitimate African-American child of segregationist senator Strom Thurmond, she published her Pulitzer-nominated memoir, Dear Senator, in 2005.

Before Fame

After graduating from high school, she pursued a nursing career in New York City's Harlem neighborhood. She later studied education at the University of Southern California and had a thirty-year career as a Los Angeles schoolteacher.

Trivia

She was active in the civil rights movement during the 1960s.

Family Life

She was born to the Thurmond family's sixteen-year-old servant when her biological father, Strom Thurmond, was twenty-two years old. She did not know the identity of her father until she was a teenager. She was raised by her mother, Carrie Butler.