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By: Gianna Abdallah
September 3, 1944, Recy Taylor was walking home from church on a Sunday not knowing what was going to happen that day. On her walk back she was stopped by 6 white men and was raped. She was held down, with a gun pointed towards her, not even knowing if she was going to make it out alive. She was not the only victim to have been raped in the south. Sadly, this was very common around this time for innocent black girls and women to be raped by middle aged white men.
Sources:
Alexander, Kerri Lee. Biography: Recy Taylor, www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/recy-taylor.
McGuire, Danielle L. 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. Vintage Books, 2011.
Martin, Michel. “'Recy Taylor's Rape Still Haunts Us'.” NPR, NPR, 14 Jan. 2018, www.npr.org/2018/01/14/578010819/recy-taylor-s-rape-still-haunts-us.
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