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That job was assigned to Rosa Parks. And Parks created the Committee to Get Justice For Mrs. Recy Taylor.
The organizing done around trying to get justice for Recy Taylor was a precursor to the Montgomery Bus Boycott --which was also a black woman created, organized, and executed protest-- that set off the modern Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s and made Martin Luther King famous.
VIDEO: THE RAPE OF RECY TAYLOR
Recy Taylor, an African American woman from Alabama whose rape by six white men in 1944 drew national attention, has died aged 97.
Taylor died in her sleep at a nursing home in Abbeville, her brother Robert Corbitt said. He said Taylor had been in good spirits the previous day and her death was sudden. She would have been 98 on Sunday.
Taylor was 24 when she was abducted and raped as she walked home from church in Abbeville. Her attackers left her on the side of the road in an isolated area.The rape black women by white men in the Jim Crow South was so common that the NAACP created the position of Chief Rape Investigator.
That job was assigned to Rosa Parks. And Parks created the Committee to Get Justice For Mrs. Recy Taylor.
The organizing done around trying to get justice for Recy Taylor was a precursor to the Montgomery Bus Boycott --which was also a black woman created, organized, and executed protest-- that set off the modern Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s and made Martin Luther King famous.
VIDEO: THE RAPE OF RECY TAYLOR
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