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1959 Tallahassee Rape Case was a Major Civil Rights Landmark
In 1959, four white men kidnapped and raped a Black college student in Tallahassee, Florida. Her testimony, before a segregated courtroom, led to a conviction and life sentence--a first for the South. It also inspired other Black women to speak out a decade before the Women's Movement.
Danielle McGuire