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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 ... Recy Taylor (1919-2017) Taylor ...
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 (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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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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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