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Recy Taylor (née Corbitt; December 31, 1919 – December 28, 2017) [2] : 297 was an African-American woman from Abbeville in Henry County, Alabama. She was born and raised in a sharecropping family in the Jim Crow era Southern United States.
Recy Taylor was a sharecropper's wife who was kidnapped and raped by seven white men in 1944. She bravely testified against them, but faced no justice in the Jim Crow era. Learn more about her story and its impact on the civil rights movement.
Learn about Recy Taylor, a black woman who was raped by six white men in 1944 and fought for justice with Rosa Parks and other activists. Explore the film, book and history of this case and its impact on the civil rights movement.
Dec 29, 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...
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Jan 8, 2018 · Recy Taylor was an African American woman who was gang-raped by a group of young, white men in Alabama in 1944. Despite hearing the men's confessions, two juries refused to indict them for their...
Dec 29, 2017 · Recy Taylor, an Alabama African-American woman whose abduction and rape by six white men in 1944 made national headlines, died Thursday morning.
Jan 9, 2018 · During her walk home from church one evening in 1944 in Abbeville, Ala., Recy Taylor was forcefully taken into the woods by six white men and then raped multiple times.
