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Strom Thurmond's Secret Daughter
These stories offered the first confirmation that Strom Thurmond (the nation's former leading segregationist), fathered and secretly supported a mixed-race child throughout his political life. The first story features an exclusive interview in which the daughter, Essie May Washington-Williams, confirmed the relationship. Follow-up's included the Thurmond Family's acknowledgement of the truth and provided details of how the relationship and exchange of money worked.
Tags: Strom Thurmond; segregationist; Essie May Washington; DNA Tests; NAACP; African Americans; paternity claim; mixed-race
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Village Voice (New York) tracks interracial adoption and emergency foster homes that end up taking care of medically fragile children for years, only to have the state try to remove them later to put them in racially homogenous homes, April 8, 1989.
Tags: CA mixed-race crack drug babies Sonoma Valley CHS DFS San Francisco