Here’s the article by Bob Johnson and Errin Haines at the AP: MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Alabama Legislature has officially apologized to an elderly black woman who was raped nearly seven decades ago by a gang of white men as she walked...
This is an excellent article by Cynthia Gordy, a journalist at the Root.com: Recy Taylor hadn’t asked for much. More than six decades after she was raped by six white men in her hometown of Abbeville, Alabama – a horrific crime that the sheriff’s...
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...
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...
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...
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...
This morning I taped an interview with NPR’s the Takeaway. Robert Corbitt, Recy Taylor’s youngest brother, joined us from Abbeville, Alabama. He was incredible. He talked about how his family endured threats for decades and how his...
Mildred Gaddis interviewed me today on her radio show. We’ll be talking about the book and answering questions from callers tomorrow and Friday as well. I was impressed with all the callers’ questions and comments and am looking...
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