The year was 1925 — 62 years after the Civil War and abolition of legalized slavery.<\/p>\n
Strom Thurmond was 22, living at his parents’ home, and working as a teacher and high school coach.<\/p>\n
Carrie Butler, a black housemaid, was 16.<\/p>\n
In polite society such sexual liaisons would have been miscegenation, race mixing outlawed by South Carolina law until 1998. But in Edgefield, S.C., where the Thurmond family had a beautiful two-story home, such dalliances were hushed up and swept under the rug.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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