As per our current Database, Essie Mae Washington-Williams has been died on Feb 4, 2013 (age 87).
When Essie Mae Washington-Williams die, Essie Mae Washington-Williams was 87 years old.
Popular As | Essie Mae Washington-Williams |
Occupation | Memoirist |
Age | 87 years old |
Zodiac Sign | Libra |
Born | October 12, 1925 (Edgefield, SC) |
Birthday | October 12 |
Town/City | Edgefield, SC |
Nationality | SC |
Essie Mae Washington-Williams’s zodiac sign is Libra. According to astrologers, People born under the sign of Libra are peaceful, fair, and they hate being alone. Partnership is very important for them, as their mirror and someone giving them the ability to be the mirror themselves. These individuals are fascinated by balance and symmetry, they are in a constant chase for justice and equality, realizing through life that the only thing that should be truly important to themselves in their own inner core of personality. This is someone ready to do nearly anything to avoid conflict, keeping the peace whenever possible
Essie Mae Washington-Williams was born in the Year of the Ox. Another of the powerful Chinese Zodiac signs, the Ox is steadfast, solid, a goal-oriented leader, detail-oriented, hard-working, stubborn, serious and introverted but can feel lonely and insecure. Takes comfort in friends and family and is a reliable, protective and strong companion. Compatible with Snake or Rooster.
Best known as the illegitimate African-American child of segregationist senator Strom Thurmond, she published her Pulitzer-nominated memoir, Dear Senator, in 2005.
After graduating from high school, she pursued a nursing career in New York City's Harlem neighborhood. She later studied education at the University of Southern California and had a thirty-year career as a Los Angeles schoolteacher.
She was active in the civil rights movement during the 1960s.
She was born to the Thurmond family's sixteen-year-old servant when her biological father, Strom Thurmond, was twenty-two years old. She did not know the identity of her father until she was a teenager. She was raised by her mother, Carrie Butler.
She and Bob Telson were both nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.