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Dear Senator

by William Stadiem, Essie Mae Washington-Williams

Dear Senator is well written and engaging. I have no doubt that Essie Mae did mpre to sensitize Strom Thurmond to the plight of African Americans than all of the congressional debates could've ever done! This book humanizes the complexities of being a southern segregationist whose political views and values were confronted due to the very real, intelligent and personal faces who were the brunt of the usual segregationists vitriole, ie, his only child for 66 years of his life and her mother, who he seemed to truly love.