Recy Taylor (1919-2017)

Recy Taylor (1919-2017)

by BradleyAnders | Jul 26, 2018 | African American History, People

Recy Taylor, an African-American woman who grew up as a sharecropper in Abbeville, Alabama, was raped on September 3, 1944, by six white men. Her refusal to remain silent after her rape brought attention to the sexual abuse of African-American women in the Jim Crow...