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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Recy Taylor, a 24-year-old black mother and sharecropper, was walking home from church in Abbeville, Alabama, on Sept. 3, 1944, when she was abducted and gang-raped by six white men. The crime, which N.A.A.C.P. activist Rosa Parks investigated and which garnered extensive coverage in the black press, never saw the indictment of the accused.
Dec 29, 2017 · Recy Taylor, an Alabama African-American woman whose abduction and rape by six white men in 1944 made national headlines, died Thursday morning. Dec. 29, 2017, 2:07 AM UTC / Updated Dec. 29, 2017 ...
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Recy Taylor, an activist who fought for justice and civil rights after she was brutally raped in 1944, passed away at the age of 97 Thursday. Taylor, who fought for justice after she was raped in ...
