Memoirist Essie Mae Washington-Williams

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Essie Mae Washington-Williams

Living place: Edgefield

Birthday: 12-10-1925 (99 years old)

Population of US 1925: 115,829,000

Global rank: #52927

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Memoirist Essie Mae Washington-Williams profile

Who is Memoirist Essie Mae Washington-Williams?
Famous as the African-American illegitimate child of a racist senator Strom Thurmond, she published her nominated Pulitzer memoir, Dear Senator, in 2005.
She was active in the civil rights movement during the 1960s.
 
 

Young / Before famous

After graduating from high school, she pursued a career in nursing in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City. She later studied education at the University of Southern California and had a thirty-year career as a teacher in Los Angeles.

Family life info

She was born to the Thurmond family sixteen years old when her biological father, Strom Thurmond, was twenty-two years old. She did not know her father's identity until she was a teenager. She was raised by her mother, Carrie Butler.

Close relationship

Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Memoirist Essie Mae Washington-Williams?
She and Bob Telson have been both nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.

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Summary of Essie Mae Washington-Williams profile

When was Memoirist Essie Mae Washington-Williams born?
Essie Mae Washington-Williams birthday 12-10-1925 (at the age of 99).
Where is Memoirist Essie Mae Washington-Williams's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Essie Mae Washington-Williams was born in Edgefield, South Carolina- United States. is a Memoirist, whose Zodiac is Libra, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Ox. Essie Mae Washington-Williams's global rank is 52927 and whose rank is 23 in list of famous Memoirist. Population of US in 1925 is about 115,829,000 persons.
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Events in 1925 and 12-10

Events in US in the birth year of Essie Mae Washington-Williams

  • Nellie Tayloe Ross takes office as governor of Wyoming (Jan. 5). She is the first woman governor in U.S. history.
  • Tennessee schoolteacher John T. Scopes is arrested (May 5) for teaching the theory of evolution, forbidden by state law.
  • Worst tornado in U.S. history hit Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana: 689 deaths.
  • Al Capone takes over the Chicago bootlegging racket.

Birthday Essie Mae Washington-Williams (12-10) in history

  • Day 12-10 year 1492: The explorer Columbus first set foot in what is now known as the Bahamas.
  • Day 12-10 year 1870: Gen. Robert E. Lee died in Lexington, Va., at age 63.
  • Day 12-10 year 1960: Soviet premier Nikita Krushchev created a disturbance at the U.N. General Assembly by pounding his desk with his shoe.
  • Day 12-10 year 1964: The Soviets launched Voskhod I, the first space capsule to carry three people into orbit.
  • Day 12-10 year 1999: NBA Hall-of-Famer Wilt Chamberlain died at his Bel Air home at age 63.
  • Day 12-10 year 2000: 17 U.S. sailors killed with the terrorist attack on the USS Cole in Yemen.
  • Day 12-10 year 2002: A bomb destroyed a nightclub in Bali, killing 202, mostly tourists.
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