Birth Name: Essie Mae Washington-Williams
Occupation: Memoirist
Place Of Birth: Edgefield
Date Of Birth: October 12, 1925
Date Of Death: February 4, 2013
Cause Of Death: N/A
Ethnicity: Unknown
Nationality: American
Essie Mae Washington-Williams was born on the 12th of October, 1925. She was famous for being a Memoirist. Best known as the illegitimate African-American child of segregationist senator Strom Thurmond, she published her Pulitzer-nominated memoir, Dear Senator, in 2005.
Essie Mae Washington-Williams was born in Edgefield. 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.
Essie Mae Washington-Williams was a Libra and was born in the Silent Generation.
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Childhood
Essie Mae Washington-Williams was born in 1920s. The 1920s represented an era of change and growth. The decade was one of learning and exploration. The economic boom and the Jazz Age were over, and America began the period called the Great Depression. Discover what happened on this day.
Essie Mae Washington-Williams is part of the Silent Generation, which followed after the G.I. Generation. As young adults during the McCarthy Era, many members of this generation felt it was dangerous to speak out. They were too young to see action in World War II and too old to participate in the fun of the Summer of Love.
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Family
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Essie Mae Washington-Williams was born in the Year of the Ox.
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| REAL NAME: | Essie Mae Washington-Williams |
| NICKNAME: | Essie |
| RELIGION: | Unknown |
| AGE GENERATION: | Silent Generation |
| BIRTH SIGN: | Libra |
| BIRTH DAY: | Monday |
| DEATH DAY: | Monday |
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Zodiac Sign: Essie Mae Washington-Williams was a Libra. People of this zodiac sign like harmony, gentleness, sharing with others, the outdoors, and dislike violence, injustice, loudmouths, conformity. The strengths of this sign are being cooperative, diplomatic, gracious, fair-minded, social, while weaknesses can be indecisive, holding a grudge and self-pity. The greatest overall compatibility with Libra is Aries and Sagittarius.
Chinese Zodiac: Essie Mae Washington-Williams was born in the Year of the Dragon. People born under this sign are persistent and straightforward. They have a strong faith and can be seen as stubborn in their old ways.
Ruling Planet: Essie Mae Washington-Williams had a ruling planet of Venus and has a ruling planet of Venus and by astrological associations Friday is ruled by Venus. Venus is the planet of love, harmony, money and possessions. Venus is graceful, charming, sensual and social. People who are born with Mars as the ruling planet have beauty, charm and sensuality.
Essie Mae Washington-Williams’s birth sign is Libra and she had a ruling planet of Venus.
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