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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. In the 1940s, Taylor's refusal to remain silent about her rape by white men led to organizing in the ...
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. ... Early Life. Recy Taylor was born Recy Corbitt in Abbeville, Alabama, on December ...
Recy Taylor was born as Recy Corbitt on December 31, 1919. She grew up in Abbeville, Alabama to a sharecropping family. When she was 17 years old, her mother died and she was left to take care of her six younger siblings. As a young woman, she married Willie Guy Taylor and in 1941, the couple welcomed their daughter Joyce Lee.
Jan 8, 2018 · ABBEVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Recy Taylor, a black Alabama woman whose rape by six white men in 1944 drew national attention, died Thursday. She was 97. Taylor died in her sleep at a nursing home in Abbeville, her brother Robert Corbitt said. He said Taylor had been in good spirits the previous day and her death was sudden. She would have been 98 on Sunday. Taylor was 24 when she was abducted and ...
Dec 29, 2017 · 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 ...
- Sewell Chan
Dec 20, 2017 · Recy Taylor felt no shame. There was no reason to. She knew there was a legacy to this kind of behavior. AMY GOODMAN: And she is alive today, Recy Taylor in Alabama. NANCY BUIRSKI: And she is ...
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Jan 2, 2018 · Reporting from Abbeville, Ala. — Recy Taylor, a black Alabama woman whose rape by six white men in 1944 drew national attention and eventually a public apology, has died at 97.
