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Recy Taylor, Who Fought for Justice After a 1944 Rape, Dies at 97

NYT

DEC. 29, 2017

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/29/
obituaries/recy-taylor-alabama-rape-victim-dead.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Recy Taylor    1919-2017

 

Recy Taylor,

a 24-year-old

African-American

sharecropper,

was walking home

from church

in Abbeville, Ala.,

on the night

of Sept. 3, 1944,

when she was abducted

and raped by six white men.

 

The crime was extensively

covered in the black press

and an early catalyst

for the civil rights movement.

 

The N.A.A.C.P.

sent a young activist

from its Montgomery, Ala., chapter

named Rosa Parks

to investigate.

 

African-Americans

around the country

demanded that the men

be prosecuted.

 

But the attack,

like many involving

black victims

during the Jim Crow era

in the South,

never went to trial.

 

Two all-white,

all-male grand juries

refused to indict the men,

even though one of them

had confessed.

 

Decades passed

before the case gained

renewed attention,

with the publication in 2010

of “At the Dark End of the Street:

Black Women,

Rape, and Resistance

— a New History

of the Civil Rights Movement

From Rosa Parks

to the Rise of Black Power,”

by the historian

Danielle L. McGuire.

 

The book prompted

an official apology in 2011

to Mrs. Taylor

by the Alabama Legislature,

which called the failure

to prosecute her attackers

“morally abhorrent

and repugnant.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/29/
obituaries/recy-taylor-alabama-rape-victim-dead.html

 

 

https://www.npr.org/2018/01/14/
578010819/recy-taylor-s-rape-still-haunts-us

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/29/
obituaries/recy-taylor-alabama-rape-victim-dead.html

 

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- December 13, 2017

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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