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

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   Jan 8, 2018 · Recy Taylor was an African American woman who was gang-raped by a group of young, white men in Alabama in 1944. ... Taylor said they threatened to kill her if she spoke out about what had happened ...

3. www.democracynow.org › 2017/12/20 › the_rape_of_recy“The Rape of Recy Taylor”: How Rosa Parks Helped a ...

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   Dec 20, 2017 · JUAN GONZÁLEZ: That was Recy Taylor herself, describing what happened the night six white boys abducted and brutally raped her as she walked home from a church service in Abbeville, Alabama ...

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5. www.npr.org › 2018/01/08 › 576566358How Recy Taylor Spoke Out Against Her Rape, Decades ... - NPR

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   Jan 9, 2018 · Recy Taylor died at 97 in Abbeville, Ala., on Dec. 28, just three days before her 98th birthday. Susan Walsh/AP. During her walk home from church one evening in 1944 in Abbeville, Ala., Recy ...

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6. 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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7. nmaahc.si.edu › explore › storiesRecy Taylor, Rosa Parks, and the Struggle for Racial Justice

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   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.

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   How did Recy Taylor die?

   • Recy Taylor died at 97 in Abbeville, Ala., on Dec. 28, just three days before her 98th birthday. During her walk home from church one evening in 1944 in Abbeville, Ala., Recy Taylor was forcefully taken into the woods by six white men and then raped multiple times.

   How Recy Taylor Spoke Out Against Her Rape, Decades Before #MeToo

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   What happened at Recycling Lives?

   • A fire broke out at Recycling Lives, causing smoke to rise above the scene. Residents living nearby were advised to keep their windows shut. Lancashire Fire and Rescue managed to bring the blaze under control by 04:00, reporting no casualties. The cause of the fire is currently under investigation.

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   What is recycled from our waste?

   • Onshore, paper, cardboard, glass, aluminium, and steel are recycled. Among plastics, only types 1, 2, and 5 are recycled onshore and can go into your yellow lidded kerbside recycling bins, along with paper, cardboard, clean tins and cans.

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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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   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.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.