Category: News Clips

Thurmond Family Struggles With Difficult Truth The New York Times December 20, 2003 By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN After Essie Mae Washington-Williams told the world this week that she was Strom Thurmond’s […]

“Black” intellectuals like to categorize all “miscegenation” between Southern “white” males and “black” or mixed females before the Civil Rights era as “rape.” That may make the “white” liberals feel […]

This article is from July. Southern Liberal Diane McWhorter doesn’t get it. By calling Strom’s daughter “black,” she only validates the ideology that demanded that all Southern “white” persons refuse […]

News conference creates huge media buzz The State by JOSEPH S. STROUD People magazine was there. So was the Economist. So were all three networks, CNN, and virtually every local […]

Thurmond story reflects times, historians say The Greenville News By Dan Hoover A part of the South that was – and some say still is – has resurfaced for newcomers […]

Strom: We hardly knew thee by Tyler Paterson Dec. 15, 2003 Oh, how I love politicians. This week a 78-year-old Los Angeles woman came forward with the claim that she […]

Armstrong Williams: For the record December 15, 2003 The truth has a biological advantage. It doesn’t need the artifice of man to survive. It lives and breathes freely on its […]

Thurmond’s grandson breaks silence THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER Wednesday, December 17, 2003 · Last updated 3:44 p.m. PT CENTRALIA, Wash. — Following his mother’s lead, a 53-year-old doctor in […]

‘At Last I Feel Completely Free’: Mixed-Race Daughter of the Late Strom Thurmond Steps Into Spotlight by Darryl Fears Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, December 18, 2003; Page A02 COLUMBIA, […]

Thurmond Paternity Marilyn W. Thompson Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, December 16, 2003; 3:00 PM After decades of denials, the family of the late Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.) acknowledged yesterday […]