Rev Al and Strom

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‘Obama told of family’s slave-owning history’ (News, last week) was
incorrect to claim that the Rev Al Sharpton’s slave ancestors ‘were
owned by the late politician Strom Thurmond, who once stood for
President on a staunchly racist, segregationalist platform’. Al
Sharpton’s great-grandfather, Coleman Sharpton, was a slave owned by
Julia Thurmond, whose grandfather was Strom Thurmond’s
great-great-grandfather. Link

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This entry was written by Craig Silverman, posted on March 12, 2007 at 8:00 am, filed under Newspapers. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.
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