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Jun 6, 2018 · Died on December 28, 2017 at age 97. Ms. Taylor was 24 she was abducted and raped by six white men in Alabama in 1944. The men never went to trial for their crime, which became a catalyst for...
Death. Taylor died in her sleep at a nursing home at the age of 97 in Abbeville, Alabama, on December 28, 2017, just three days before her 98th birthday, [27] and just 20 days after The Rape of Recy Taylor was released. [28] She was buried next to her daughter's grave at New Mount Zion Freewill Baptist Church.
Jan 8, 2018 · Recy Taylor died on December 28, 2017, a few days before her 98th birthday. She passed away in her sleep at a nursing home in Abbeville. Continued Recognition
Jul 26, 2018 · Recy Taylor, an African-American woman who grew up as a sharecropper in Abbeville, Alabama, was raped on September 3, 1944, by six white men. Her refusal to remain silent after her rape brought attention to the sexual abuse of African-American women in the Jim Crow South.
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. Taylor died in her...
Taylor died in her sleep at a nursing home at the age of 97 in Abbeville, Alabama, on December 28, 2017, just three days before her 98th birthday, and just 20 days after The Rape of Recy Taylor was released. She was buried next to her daughter's grave at New Mount Zion Freewill Baptist Church.
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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.