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1. www.nytimes.com › notable-deaths › recy-taylorNotable Deaths 2017: Recy Taylor - The New York Times

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   Jun 6, 2018 · JUNE 6, 2018. Mrs. Taylor in a 1944 photograph. ... Recy Taylor Died on December 28, 2017 at age 97. ... Read Obituary; Watch Video; Review: ‘The Rape of Recy Taylor’ Takes a Deep Dive Into ...

2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Recy_TaylorRecy Taylor - Wikipedia

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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 ...

3. www.waka.com › 2017/12/29 › civil-rights-pioneerCivil Rights Pioneer Recy Taylor Dies at 97 - WAKA 8

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   Dec 29, 2017 · Recy Taylor, a black Alabama woman whose rape by six white men in 1944 drew national attention, has died. She was 97. Taylor’s brother Robert Corbitt says she died in her sleep Thursday at a nursing home in Abbeville. She would have been 98 on Sunday. Taylor was 24 when she was abducted and raped as she walked home from church in Abbeville.

4. www.npr.org › 2018/01/08 › 576566358How Recy Taylor Spoke Out Against Her Rape, Decades ... - NPR

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   Recy Taylor died at 97 in Abbeville, Ala., on Dec. 28, just three days before her 98th birthday. Susan Walsh/AP. During her walk home from church one evening in 1944 in Abbeville, Ala., Recy ...

5. beyondthedash.com › obituary › recy-taylor-1018859142Recy Taylor | Obituary | Beyond the Dash

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   Dec 28, 2017 · ABBEVILLE, Ala. — 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.

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7. amp.theguardian.com › film › 2017The Rape of Recy Taylor: behind one of the year’s most vital ...

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   Dec 14, 2017 · The titular crime in The Rape of Recy Taylor and the miscarriage of justice that follows occurred in 1944 and the spring of 1945. But amid a wave of sexual assault claims that is sweeping powerful men off their perches, the modern analogues are hard to miss.

8. exhibits.stanford.edu › feature › recy-taylorRecy Taylor | Say Their Names - Spotlight at Stanford

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   Courtesy of The People's World/Daily Worker and Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University. Recy Taylor, from Abbeville, Alabama, was 24 years old when six armed, white men abducted and brutally raped her, as she was walking home from church on September 3, 1944. She was married and the mother of a three-year-old ...

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   How did Recy Taylor die?

   • Recy Taylor died at 97 in Abbeville, Ala., on Dec. 28, just three days before her 98th birthday. 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.

   How Recy Taylor Spoke Out Against Her Rape, Decades Before #MeToo

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   Is Recy Taylor still alive?

   • Recy Taylor (1919–2017) She was born on December 31, 1919 in Abbeville, Alabama, USA, and died on December 28, 2017 in Abbeville.

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   When was Recy Taylor born?

   • Recy Taylor was born on December 31, 1919 in Abbeville, Alabama, USA as Recy Corbitt.

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   When did Danielle McGuire meet Recy Taylor?

   • In the audio, as in a previous Web version, we say historian Danielle McGuire met Recy Taylor on President Barack Obama's Inauguration Day in 2008. The correct year is 2009. At the Golden Globes, Oprah Winfrey spoke of her gratitude to women whose names we'll never know. Then she said the name Recy Taylor, who died in December.

   How Recy Taylor Spoke Out Against Her Rape, Decades Before #MeToo

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   Who is Recy Corbitt?

   • The Congressional Black Caucus led Democratic Caucus members in wearing red "Recy" pins while attending the 2018 State of the Union, where Taylor's granddaughter, Mary Joyce Owens, was a guest. Recy Corbitt was born on December 31, 1919, in rural Alabama, where her family were farmworkers doing sharecropping.

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   How did Rosa Parks bring justice for Mrs Recy Taylor?

   • Rosa Parks, in her instrumental work to bring justice for Taylor, spearheaded the creation of the "Committee for Equal Justice for Mrs. Recy Taylor" (CEJRT). It quickly gathered national support, with local chapters springing up across the United States.

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