The Alabama House made an historic move Tuesday (March 29) towards a state apology to Recy Taylor, 91, who was gang raped by 7 white men in Abbeville, Ala., in 1944. The AP reports: The House on Tuesday approved by an apparent unanimous voice...
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...
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...
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
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...
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