By Bob Paslay
The History Channel and others occasionally show the old black and white coverage of the 1948 Democratic Convention in which then-Gov. Strom Thurmond leads the southerners out because they were unhappy with the Civil Rights plank. But will any of us ever be able to watch it without knowing that by that time Thurmond had a big secret. He had fathered an African American baby because his raging hormones made him unable to keep his hands off of a teen housekeeper in his father's house in South Carolina?
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