Rev Al and Strom
‘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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