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Oprah Winfrey visited Recy Taylor's grave in Alabama on Tuesday. Taylor died last month. Winfrey told her story at the Golden Globes. In 1944 six white men r...
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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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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 29, 2017 · Recy Taylor, a 24-year-old African-American sharecropper, was walking home from church in Abbeville, Alabama, on the night of Sept. 3, 1944, when she was abducted and raped by six white men.
