![]() Taylor’s case was one of several that Parks and other activists worked on-shining a light on the racist rape and sexual violence against Black women in the South-and local authorities’ total disregard for, or complicity in, these crimes. ![]() The men were never punished for their crime, but Parks and others were able to bring the case international attention. While Recy Taylor’s struggle to find justice in the Jim Crow South may not be as well known today, the woman who would travel to Abbeville, Alabama, to help campaign for her is much more familiar-Rosa Parks. The African American wife and mother was walking home from church with two other parishioners around midnight on September 3, 1944, when the carload of men wielding knives and guns forced her into the car, took her to a secluded location to rape her, and then drove her back to the road to dump her. RECY TAYLOR was 24 years old when she was kidnapped, taken out into the woods by seven local white men and raped. ![]()
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