Article #77702

Memoir details upbringing of late senator – who denied existence of systemic racism – in segregated south

A little-known autobiography from Lindsey Graham published in 2015 sheds light on his complicated record of acknowledging and addressing racism in South Carolina.

Graham, born in 1955, came of age in a small textile town in the segregated south, located in Pickens county, the site of the last documented lynching in South Carolina in 1947. My Story, which came across as political spin to anyone who knew the background of Graham’s unlikely rise to political prominence, is a window into the conservative white man’s view of the south’s enduring racial tensions.