Slavery Ties Sharpton to Thurmond

NEW YORK (Feb. 25)
AP

Genealogists have revealed that the Rev. Al Sharpton is a descendent of a slave owned by relatives of the late Sen. Strom Thurmond - a discovery the civil rights activist on Sunday called "shocking."

It's chilling. It's amazing," the Rev. Al Sharpton reportedly said after learning that he's a descendent of a slave owned by relatives of the late Sen. Thurmond

The genealogists, who were not paid by the newspaper, uncovered the ancestral ties using a variety of documents that included census, marriage and death records.

Thurmond, of South Carolina, was once considered an icon of racial segregation. During his 1948 bid for president, he promised to preserve segregation and, in 1957, he filibustered for more than 24 hours against a civil rights bill. ond.



Thurmond's children have acknowledged that Thurmond fathered a biracial daughter with Essie Mae Washington-Williams' mother was a housekeeper in the home of Thurmond's parents.

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