{"id":19464,"date":"2013-02-07T15:00:01","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T20:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19464"},"modified":"2013-02-07T15:00:01","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T20:00:01","slug":"strom-thurmonds-daughter-dies-at-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19464","title":{"rendered":"Strom Thurmond\u2019s Daughter Dies At 87"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COLUMBIA, SC \u2014 The Black daughter of the late U.S. Sen.<strong> Strom Thurmond<\/strong> who kept her parentage secret for more than 70 years to avoid damaging his political career has died. <strong>Essie Mae Washington-Williams<\/strong> was 87.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vann Dozier<\/strong> of Leevy\u2019s Funeral Home in Columbia said <strong>Washington-Williams<\/strong> died Monday. A cause of death wasn\u2019t given.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Washington-Williams <\/strong>was the daughter of the one-time segregationist and his family\u2019s Black maid.<\/p>\n<p>There had been rumors for decades in political circles and the Black community that <strong>Thurmond<\/strong> had fathered a daughter by a Black woman. But <strong>Washington-Williams<\/strong> did not come forward and identify <strong>Thurmond <\/strong>as her father until after his death at age 100 in 2003.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Washington-Williams<\/strong> spent decades as a school teacher in Los Angeles. <strong>Thurmond<\/strong> was South Carolina\u2019s governor and for a time was the nation\u2019s longest-serving U.S. senator.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COLUMBIA, SC \u2014 The Black daughter of the late U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond who kept her parentage secret for more than 70 years to avoid damaging his political career has died. Essie Mae Washington-Williams was 87. Vann Dozier of Leevy\u2019s Funeral Home in Columbia said Washington-Williams died Monday. A cause of death wasn\u2019t given. Washington-Williams [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}