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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 ...

2. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk › entry › recy-taylor-diesRecy Taylor, Whose 1944 Rape Inspired Black Women’s ...

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   Dec 29, 2017 · Taylor’s brother, Robert Corbitt, told NBC News that she died in her sleep at a nursing facility in her hometown of Abbeville. Taylor, who is survived by Corbitt along with two sisters, a ...

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

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   Jan 8, 2018 · Last Updated: September 15, 2020. Original Published Date: January 8, 2018. Recy Taylor was an African American woman who was gang-raped by a group of young, white men in Alabama in 1944. Despite ...

4. apnews.com › article › 96dc1776f2dd49ea8f5cfee32342017aRecy Taylor, who fought for justice after 1944 rape, dies

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   Jan 8, 2018 · ABBEVILLE, Ala. (AP) — 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. Taylor was 24 when she was abducted and ...

5. www.womenshistory.org › biographies › recy-taylorBiography: Recy Taylor - National Women's History Museum

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   Recy Taylor was born as Recy Corbitt on December 31, 1919. She grew up in Abbeville, Alabama to a sharecropping family. When she was 17 years old, her mother died and she was left to take care of her six younger siblings. As a young woman, she married Willie Guy Taylor and in 1941, the couple welcomed their daughter Joyce Lee.

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   Dec 31, 2017 · Memorial ID. 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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   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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   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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   What is the message of the rape of Recy Taylor?

   • The Rape of Recy Taylor conveys a powerful lesson about sexual violence, white supremacy, and the courage of a woman and her family, determined but unable to obtain justice.

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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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   Dec 1, 2018 · Augusta Films, Nancy Buirksi's documentary The Rape of Recy Taylor centers on a brutal sexual assault in Abbeville, Alabama, in 1944. The twenty-four-year-old African American wife and mother Recy Taylor, coming home from a sanctified church service with a friend and her son, was forced into a car at gunpoint and gang raped by six young white ...

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