Documentary, "The Rape of Recy Taylor" (2017) A Heroic Woman Who Fought Back
Trailer. This harrowing & instructive documentary from Nancy Buirski is about the remarkable courage of Recy Taylor, a young black woman in Abbeville, Alabama. At age 24, after she was raped walking on her way home from church by a carload of six white teenage boys in 1944, Taylor refused to stay silent like all the other victims of this very commonplace crime. With the help of her community, the case was taken up by the NAACP & no less a person than Rosa Parks spearheaded the campaign. Even under pressure, the state’s legal authorities never made the smallest genuine attempt to collar the suspects, who were left to go free. In 2011, the state of Alabama finally offered Taylor an “apology” for its failure to convict her assailants. Taylor died at the age of 97 in December 2017. https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/may/24/the-of-recy-taylor-review-vital-story-of-a-woman-who-fought-back
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would like nothing better than to return to these type, 'good old days'.
Never happen again when these type pigs have free reign with black women's bodies with no accountability. No more lynching, being put in jail for misdemeanour charges because of being black only to end up hanging in a jail cell, well we are still fighting that type ameriKKKan racism.
mind dumbing and enraging to grasp, to say the least. No more oppression, violence, injustice and hypocrisy as in racist white males raping innocent women like Recy Taylor; I hope to God this never returns, it can't..
What tremendous courage & strength Recy Taylor possessed, like Rosa Parks & her husband and many others in those difficult times. We caught the end of this new film today on cable & will re-watch.
*Note the news article from the 'Chicago Defender'- Recy's husband being 'offered $600 for the violation'- posted at the link of the new Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture. *News clip needs ENLARGING!
An aside, I hope that *ROSA PARKS' Detroit home auctioned Friday ends up at this SI museum, a terrific home for it!
>SI Museum Link :https://nmaahc.si.edu/blog-post/recy-taylor-rosa-parks-and-struggle-racial-justice
whose story of courage needs to be heard. Young mother, age 24 gang raped by white boys after church on Sunday.
- Recy Taylor (1919-2017) beautiful and courageous woman who fought back against violence and oppression.
NPR, 'Recy Taylor's Rape Still Haunts Us,' Jan. 14, 2018.
Last week, Oprah Winfrey's speech at the Golden Globes brought many in the audience to tears and to their feet. She was accepting an award for contributions to the world of entertainment, but the billionaire broadcaster and philanthropist decided to use her moment to tell the story of a far less celebrated woman: Recy Taylor.
"In 1944 Recy Taylor was a young wife and mother, she was just walking home from a church service she'd attended in Abbeville, Alabama, when she was abducted by six white men, raped and left blindfolded by the side of the road coming home from church," Winfrey recounted on stage. Later, a colleague reminded me that I had spoken with Taylor myself, with the help of historian Danielle McGuire, back in 2011. Taylor told me the story of that rape in her own words...
https://www.npr.org/2018/01/14/578010819/recy-taylor-s-rape-still-haunts-us