Essie Mae Washington-Williams had a decades-long career as a schoolteacher in Los Angeles, but she’ll likely be remembered most as an emblem of the hypocrisy of her father, the late onetime ...

Essie Mae Washington-Williams died this month without ever publicly being acknowledged by her father, the infamous South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond. Yet, after his death in 2003, she became the ...

Plans are being made for the body of Senator Strom Thurmond to lie in state prior to his funeral next week. Thurmond died last night at a hospital in his South Carolina hometown at the age of 100. His ...

He was 100 and the longest-serving senator in history. Thurmond died at 9:45 p.m., his son Strom Thurmond Jr. said. He had been living in a newly renovated wing of a hospital in his hometown of ...

WASHINGTON — Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, a one-time Democratic segregationist who helped fuel the rise of the modern conservative Republican Party in the South, died Thursday. He was 100 ...

Age took its inevitable toll on Thurmond as he neared retirement, and he was guided through the Capitol in a wheelchair. Yet he wielded political power virtually to the end, prevailing upon President ...