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Most of America couldn't have cared less. Until December 2002, that is, when bloggers staged a dramatic show of force. The occasion was Strom Thurmond's 100th birthday party, during which Trent Lott made what sounded like a nostalgic reference to Thurmond's past segregationist leanings. The mainstream press largely glossed over the incident, but when regular journalists bury the lead, bloggers dig it right back up. "That story got ignored for three, four, five days by big papers and the TV networks while blogs kept it alive," says Joshua Micah Marshall, creator of talkingpointsmemo.com, one of a handful...
...Yorker, had begun work only that day. Schwerner, a bearded youth from New York, had been a COFO worker in Philadelphia for six months. Because of his civil rights aggressiveness and because he was Jewish, he had been marked for death as early as May by an occult, segregationist organization called the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Founded just last March, the Knights dedicated themselves to carrying out terrorist tactics against civil rights workers coming in from the North...
...rebuilt, but many feel it was just a matter of time. "There was simply too much pressure" to follow through and avoid the impression that Mississippi was backsliding, says a high-ranking state official. The arrest is part of a broader purge of the South's segregationist skeletons--including Mississippi's 1994 conviction of Byron de la Beckwith in the 1963 murder of black civil rights leader Medgar Evers and Alabama's 2002 conviction of Bobby Frank Cherry for the 1963 bombing of a black Birmingham church...
...years it had been rumored that Thurmond, a Senator from South Carolina, had fathered a black child, but it wasn't until Essie Mae Washington Williams came forward a few months after his death, at age 100, that it became clear the former segregationist leader who once inveighed against "mixing the races" had had his own entanglements. As 78-year-old Williams told it, she had been conceived while her mother worked as a domestic in the Thurmonds' home. Over the years, there were cash payments and moments of tenderness when the Senator and his daughter would occasionally meet. Williams...
...father's name was James Strom Thurmond." ESSIE MAE WASHINGTON WILLIAMS, biracial daughter of the former segregationist Senator, who waited until he died and she was 78 years old to reveal that she is the child of Thurmond and a black maid who worked for his family...