Ben Greenberg got it right: personal apologies, but nothing official for Recy Taylor from Alabama. An official apology is the least Alabama could do: the armed perpetrators confessed to intercourse with Taylor, but falsely claimed she was a...
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...
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...
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