Recy Taylor

Recy Elisabeth Taylor (December 31, 1919 – December 28, 2017)Danielle L. McGuire: At The Dark End of The Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance- a New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power (New York: Vintage Books, 2011), 279 was an African-American kidnapping and rape victim and activist. 

Incident
On September 3, 1944, she was kidnapped while leaving church and gang-raped by six white men. Even though the men admitted the rape to authorities, two grand juries subsequently declined to indict the men, meaning no charges were ever brought against her six assailants.

In 2011, the Alabama House of Representatives apologised on behalf of the state "for its failure to prosecute her attackers.""'Morally repugnant': Alabama issues apology for its treatment of black woman gang raped by six white men in 1944", The Daily Mail, March 30, 2011

Death
Taylor died of congestive heart failure in her sleep at a nursing home in Abbeville, Alabama on December 28, 2017, just three days before her 98th birthday.

References

Other websites

 Treading the Tightrope of Jim Crow; Montgomery NAACP. The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks.

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Category:Deaths from congestive heart failure
Category:American civil rights activists
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Category:People from Alabama