{"id":5077,"date":"2010-02-07T21:14:19","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T21:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=5077"},"modified":"2010-02-07T21:14:45","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T21:14:45","slug":"free-at-last-the-secret-of-esie-mae-washington-williams-is-out-but-she-still-doesnt-have-full-control-over-her-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=5077","title":{"rendered":"Free at Last: The secret of Esie Mae Washington Williams is out, but she still doesn&#8217;t have full control over her story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiana.edu\/~bfca\/publication\/free.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Free at Last: The secret of Esie Mae Washington Williams is out, but she still doesn&#8217;t have full control over her story<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bloomington Herald-Times<br \/>\n2004-02-14<br \/>\nCourtesy of: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiana.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Black Film Center\/Archive<br \/>\nIndiana University<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mypage.iu.edu\/~mcclusk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Audrey T. McCluskey<\/a><\/strong>, Director Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center<br \/>\n<em>Indiana University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>After 78 years of harboring a less than well-kept secret, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Essie_Mae_Washington_Williams\" target=\"_blank\">Essie Mae Washington-Williams<\/a> proclaimed that by publicly naming <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/South_Carolina\" target=\"_blank\">South Carolina<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Strom_Thurmond\" target=\"_blank\">Strom Thurmond<\/a>, the once fiery segregationist senator and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dixiecrat\" target=\"_blank\">Dixiecrat<\/a> presidential candidate as her father, for the first time she felt &#8220;completely free.&#8221; Her story garnered massive news coverage, not because the sexual exploitation of her 16-year-old black mother, Carrie Butler, by the 22-year-old Thurmond in whose household Butler worked as a maid was different from numerous other examples of lustful hypocrisy. <strong>The attention came because the late senator built his career on virulent racism, espousing the evils of race-mixing before moderating those views after he was well past his political prime.<\/strong> The kind of hateful rhetoric that Thurmond was good at caused many black men to lose their lives at the end of a rope, strung from a Poplar or Pecan or Live Oak tree. Their crime? It was to be accused of a liaison with a white woman or even of taking a wayward glance at one&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiana.edu\/~bfca\/publication\/free.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free at Last: The secret of Esie Mae Washington Williams is out, but she still doesn&#8217;t have full control over her story Bloomington Herald-Times 2004-02-14 Courtesy of: Black Film Center\/Archive Indiana University Audrey T. McCluskey, Director Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center Indiana University After 78 years of harboring a less than well-kept secret, Essie Mae Washington-Williams [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,8,26,394,20,25],"tags":[2051,2052,2054,2053,2057,2056,1449,2055],"class_list":["post-5077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-usa","category-women","tag-audrey-t-mccluskey","tag-audrey-thomas-mccluskey","tag-black-film-centerarchive","tag-bloomington-herald-times","tag-carrie-butler","tag-essie-mae-washington-williams","tag-south-carolina","tag-strom-thurmond"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}