(CNN) --An attorney for the family of former U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina confirmed Monday that in 1925, when he was 22, Thurmond fathered a child with a black teenage housekeeper.

Strom Thurmond bragged for years about dehydrating his body to prepare for his speech opposing the Civil Rights Act. He ...

The record for speaking on the floor of the U.S. Senate once held by South Carolina U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond was broken ...

Booker’s speech surpassed the previous record for longest Senate floor speech, held by Strom Thurmond since 1957 ... Booker, who is one of only 12 Black people to have ever served in the ...

Strom Thurmond ... His Black daughter, Essie Mae Washington-Williams, was born to a 16-year-old domestic servant who worked for the parents of the then-22-year-old Thurmond.

Strom Thurmond ... fatigue present. Thurmond, the senator from South Carolina, used the filibuster to protest the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1957, which would give Black Americans certain ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Cory Booker breaks the record for longest Senate speech, previously held by segregationist Strom Thurmond.

U.S. Sen. Cory Booker is continuing a marathon speech on the Senate floor, which passed the 25-hour mark and broke a record ...

(CNN) --An attorney for the family of former U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina confirmed Monday that in 1925, when he was 22, Thurmond fathered a child with a black teenage housekeeper.