{"id":5113,"date":"2003-12-19T10:22:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-19T10:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=5113"},"modified":"2021-06-13T22:03:20","modified_gmt":"2021-06-13T22:03:20","slug":"thurmond-story-reflects-times-historians-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2003\/12\/19\/thurmond-story-reflects-times-historians-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Thurmond story reflects times, historians say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/greenvilleonline.com\/news\/2003\/12\/16\/2003121621095.htm\">Thurmond story reflects times, historians say<\/a><br \/>\nThe Greenville News<br \/>\nBy Dan Hoover <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A part of the South that was &#8211; and some say still is &#8211; has resurfaced for newcomers and new generations.<\/p>\n<p>Acknowledgment Monday by the late Sen. Strom Thurmond&#8217;s family that the claim of a 78-year-old Los Angeles woman that he was her father is true raised anew one of the South&#8217;s dirty little secrets: Powerful white men, impoverished black women, mixed race children, historians said. <\/p>\n<p>Furman University historian A.V. Huff said the issue isn&#8217;t widely written about, but is an indelible part of the region&#8217;s history. <\/p>\n<p>While native-born Southerners of a certain age are familiar with such situations, some young people and newcomers may not be, Huff said. <\/p>\n<p>In that case, &#8220;they just have to learn a little Southern history.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thurmond story reflects times, historians say The Greenville News By Dan Hoover A part of the South that was &#8211; and some say still is &#8211; has resurfaced for newcomers and new generations. Acknowledgment&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[63,141],"tags":[121],"class_list":["post-5113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-d-powells-view","category-news-clips","tag-biracial-and-multiracial"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1kt","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/AD-Powell.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7329,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5113\/revisions\/7329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}