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Recy Taylor (1919-2017) Taylor’s refusal to remain silent about a brutal rape she suffered led to her organizing in the African-American community on behalf of justice and civil rights. The...
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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.
Recy Taylor was born on December 31, 1919 and died on December 28, 2017. She was an African American woman from Abbeville in Henry County, Alabama, USA. On S...
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...
Jan 24, 2018 · Oprah Winfrey paid her respects at the grave of Recy Taylor, the Civil Rights icon she referenced in her now-iconic Golden Globes speech.For more info, pleas...
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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.
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Dec 31, 2017 · 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.