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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 ...

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3. www.nytimes.com › 2017/12/29 › obituariesRecy Taylor, Who Fought for Justice After a 1944 Rape, Dies ...

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   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 ...

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   Jun 6, 2018 · 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 Systemic Injustice; of . Notable Deaths 2017.

5. www.findagrave.com › memorial › 186201816Recy Corbitt Taylor (1919-2017) - Find a Grave Memorial

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   Dec 31, 2017 · The Alabama Legislature passed a resolution apologizing to her in 2011. A 2017 documentary was made of the case, called "The Rape of Recy Taylor." Taylor is survived by her brother Robert Corbitt along with two sisters, a granddaughter and multiple great-grandchildren. Her daughter Joyce Lee Taylor tragically died in a car accident in 1967.

6. www.biography.com › activists › recy-taylorRecy Taylor - Movie, Daughter & Story - Biography

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   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.

7. www.spokesman.com › stories › 2017Recy Taylor, Alabama black woman raped by 6 white men, dies

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   Dec 20, 2017 · Dec. 20, 2017 Updated Thu., Dec. 28, 2017 at 7:45 p.m. Recy Taylor is seen Oct. 7, 2010, at her home in Winter Haven, Fla. Black and white leaders from a rural southeast Alabama community ...

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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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   How did Recy Taylor pass away?

   • Recy Taylor passed away in December 2017, at the age of 97. In 1944, she was kidnapped at gunpoint and raped by six white men while walking home from a church in Abbeville, Alabama. Although the men were arrested, they were never prosecuted. ‘The attack, like many involving black victims during the Jim Crow era in the South, never went to trial.’

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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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   What happened to Mrs Taylor in 'the rape of Recy Taylor'?

   • Mrs. Taylor died in Abbeville on Thursday, three weeks after the release of “The Rape of Recy Taylor,” a documentary about the crime. She was 97. The death was confirmed by her brother, Robert Lee Corbitt. “Many ladies got raped,” Mrs. Taylor said in the film, interviewed by its director, Nancy Buirski.

   Recy Taylor, Who Fought for Justice After a 1944 Rape, Dies at 97

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   How many children did Recy Taylor have?

   • She served as a surrogate mother for many of her younger siblings after her mother died when Taylor was 17. With husband Willie Guy Taylor, Taylor had one child: Joyce Lee. Joyce died in 1967 in a car accident. The documentary The Rape of Recy Taylor revealed that the attack left Taylor unable to have any more children.

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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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9. www.blackpast.org › african-american-history › taylor-rRecy Taylor (1919-2017) - Blackpast

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   Jul 26, 2018 · Recy Taylor (1919-2017) 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. Born on December 31, 1919, to Benny and Alma ...