the rape of recy taylor
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The Rape of Recy Taylor Looks Back at a Horrific but Largely Forgotten Case From the Jim Crow South
Say her name: Recy Taylor. In 1944, 24-year-old Recy Taylor and two friends were walking back from a late-night church service in Abbeville, Ala., when seven young white men in a car stopped them and threatened them with a gun. Taylor was forced to enter the car, and the men drove off with her into…