The woman on television was talking about her life as the mixed-race daughter of a white man who was once America’s foremost segregationist. In her living room in North Little Rock, Rita Frazier stared at the set in a riveted silence.<\/p>\n
“I wonder if Daddy is watching this,” she recalled thinking.<\/p>\n
It was a long shot, she said, but maybe the confirmation last week from Essie Mae Washington-Williams that former senator Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.) had reached out to her would persuade Frazier’s own father, who is white, to say his first hello to his granddaughter, Promise Victoria Leeper, who is biracial and 16. <\/p>\n
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