This is the stuff that breeds my fascination with genealogy!
From the New York Daily News:
In a revelation that will stun the nation, the Rev. Al Sharpton, one of America’s most powerful black leaders, has unearthed a shattering family secret – his ancestors were slaves owned by relatives of the late South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond.
It is an ironic twist of fate that inexorably links one of the most vocal civil rights activists and an icon of Deep South segregation. A team of some of the country’s most trusted genealogists spent two weeks examining Sharpton’s family background.
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