Strom Storm
Turns out racist Sen. Strom Thurmond kept a pretty juicy secret to his grave: He had an illegitimate mixed-race daughter!
That's right, the leading proponent of segregation also happened to be a leading proponent of hypocrisy. Unfortunately, that kind of stuff was way too common in the 1800s and the first half of the 1900s, as white men carried on relations with their black slaves (and later, after slavery was outlawed, servants) -- usually forcefully.
L.A. Times reports that much of the anger here on Sunday was actually focused on the 78-year-old Los Angeles woman, Essie Mae Washington-Williams, who kept the secret for so long.
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