It’s curious, I knew Strom Thurmond was the segregationist candidate and continued to oppose desegregation and civil rights until his death…all the while having fathered a child with a black girl. But, I never realized it was his servant who was 15 at the time when he was 23. So, this cat raped his house servant and had a baby with her. Wow. Then, I read how he was well know for sexually assaulting women in the Senate elevator.
The words used were Thurmond “was in a category of his own” when it came to politicians and sexual harassment.
Interesting stuff
Thurmond’s 100th birthday was celebrated on December 5, 2002. Some remarks made by Mississippi Senator Trent Lott during the event were considered racially insensitive: “When Strom Thurmond ran for president, Mississippi voted for him. We’re proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn’t have had all these problems over the years, either.”