“My legacy to you is the discovery of your lineage: Reckoning the Strom Thurmond Lineage with My Family’s Legacy”
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The daughter of Strom Thurmond’s biracial daughter Essie Mae Washington-Williams, Monica Williams-Hudgens discusses how her family’s daily conversations around the dinner table about race, gender and educational equity prepared her and her siblings to reckon with their kinship to – and embrace their legacy as descendants of – a white segregationist Southern politician.
