NEW YORK ? Genealogists have found that civil rights activist
REV. AL SHARPTON is a descendent of a slave owned by relatives of the late Sen. STROM THURMOND, a newspaper reported Sunday
.
They said professional genealogists, working at the newspaper's behest, recently uncovered the ancestral ties between one of the nation's best-known black leaders and a man who was once a prominent defender of segregation.
"I have always wondered what was the background of my family," the newspaper quoted Sharpton as saying. "But nothing ? nothing ? could prepare me for this."
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