Recy Taylor
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title:
Recy Taylor
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Recy Taylor 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 African-American community for justice and civil rights. On September 3, 1944, Taylor was kidnapped while leaving church and gang-raped by six white men. Despite the men's confessions to authorities, two grand juries subse
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American civil rights activist (1929–2017)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recy_Taylor
date created:
2011-11-07T21:26:20Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T10:45:50Z
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