60 minutes II. Essie Mae [Strom Thurmond's daughter]

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An interview with Essie Mae Washington-Williams, daughter of Sen. Strom Thurmond and a Black 16-year-old who worked as a domestic in his father’s home. Thurmond, one the country’s most powerful sen...

An interview with Essie Mae Washington-Williams, daughter of Sen. Strom Thurmond and a Black 16-year-old who worked as a domestic in his father’s home. Thurmond, one the country’s most powerful senators -- a man who had filibustered against the civil rights bill and ran for president as a segregationist -- died last June at the age of 100. He never publicly acknowledged his oldest daughter or the role he played in her life.

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