Justice delayed is justice denied. But city, county and state recognition is an important first step toward recognizing Recy Taylor’s humanity and the state’s mishandling of her 1944 case. By Lance Griffin, Dothan Eagle It was a...
Recy Taylor was a 24-year-old mother when she was abducted at gunpoint and gang raped by a group of white men in Alabama in 1944. An activist named Rosa Parks was sent to investigate the attack. Taylor’s case, and a number of others like...
Nearly 70 years ago, Recy Taylor was gang-raped at gunpoint. Her attackers admitted to kidnapping and raping her. And nothing was ever done about it. As a young African-American woman living in Abbeville, Alabama, in 1944, when Jim Crow laws...
The Tallahassee Democrat tells the story of the 1959 gang rape, by four white men, of Florida A&M student Betty Jean Owens. At the Jim Crow trial, Betty Jean Owens testified against her rapists; one defense attorney referred to her as a...
After her brutal gang rape, Recy Taylor became a global symbol of American injustice and helped inspire the civil rights movement. So why has nobody heard of her today? Read this moving and important essay by Cynthia Gordy of TheRoot.com
I hated history when I was in high school. And I didn’t really like it that much in college, either. So how did I become a historian? I entered history by way of a highway exit sign. I was a junior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. And I...
Errin Haines wrote an incredible article for the AP about Recy Taylor’s long struggle for justice and dignity. I think most academics hope that their work has some impact in the “real” world–that somehow all the years of...
I had such a blast talking with Professor Neal about the book via skype. It felt like an Oprah moment! His new online show from Duke University is really incredible and worth watching the earlier (and future) episodes. Left of Black”...
At the Dark End of the Street featured on the Root: McGuire, an assistant professor in the history department of Wayne State University in Detroit, tells the history of Parks’ activism in her just-published book, At the Dark End of...
Since the book came out, I have received numerous emails from women around the country telling me their stories. Most echo the testimonies of the black women I write about. But every now and then I hear a story that shocks me all over again. I...
Rosa Parks has been an iconic symbol of the civil rights movement–a woman who refused to give up her seat to a white man, thus sparking the Montgomery bus boycott and the modern black freedom struggle. But we have all but forgotten the real...
I just published an essay on the Grio arguing that some of these old rape cases should be reopened so that women like Recy Taylor can finally get justice. In 2008, the Department of Justice received over $1 million to pursue racially-motivated...
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