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‘The Rape of Recy Taylor’: Documentary addresses #MeToo in Twin Cities
One fall Sunday night after church, in Abbeville, Alabama, Recy Taylor was abducted and brutally raped by seven white men. Despite the fact that these men confessed to the crime, Taylor never saw justice. Taylor’s rape was not unique; this was a common crime during the Jim Crow era. Almost a “sport” of some sort,…
Read MoreDetails about Recy Taylor
Oprah Winfrey has every woman speaking Recy Taylor’s name following her 2018 Golden Globe Awards acceptance speech. Taylor was only 24-years-old when she was violated and gang-raped by six armed White men. Taylor was on her way home from church in Abbeville, Alabama, that dreadful evening on Sept. 3, 1944. Adding insult to injurious and…
Read MoreAfrican American Woman Gets Apology From State for Gang Rape
Imagine living in the Jim Crow South as a young African American woman, being sexually assaulted and having to wait for almost 70 years to obtain some reasonable fascicle of justice for it. This is what happened to Recy Taylor who, in 1944, was traumatized by the above experience. At the time, Taylor was 24,…
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