Monica Williams-Hudgens, granddaughter of Strom Thurmond.

The daughter of Strom Thurmond’s bi-racial daughter Essie Mae Washington-Williams, Monica Williams-Hudgens will discuss how her family’s daily conversations around the dinner table about race, gender, and educational equity prepared her and her siblings to reckon with their kinship to and embrace their legacy as descendants of a white racist Southern politician.

Co-sponsored with the Rutland Institute for Ethics Presidential Colloquium, “Remembering, Reckoning and Responsibility.”

A Race and the University event. The series’ purpose is to create greater awareness of and encourage open conversations about Clemson’s history as it relates to race and diversity.