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Recy Taylor
Recy Taylor (born December 31, 1919)〔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〕 is an African American woman from Abbeville in Henry County, Alabama. On September 3, 1944, she was kidnapped while leaving church and brutally 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 Taylor's six assailants.
In 2011, the Alabama House of Representatives apologized 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.〕 Taylor's rape and the subsequent court cases were among the first instances of nationwide protest and activism among the African American community, and ended up providing an early organizational spark for the Civil Rights movement.〔McGuire, ''At the Dark End of the Street'', p. 39.〕
==The assault==
Recy Taylor was walking home from the church on September 3, 1944, with her friend Fannie Daniel, and Daniel's teenage son West, when a car pulled up on the side of the road. In the car was US Army Private Herbert Lovett and six other men, all armed. Herbert Lovett accused Taylor of cutting "that white boy in Clopton this evening".〔McGuire, ''At the Dark End of the Street'', p. xv.〕 This accusation was false, as Taylor had been with Daniel all day. The seven men forced Taylor into the car at gunpoint and proceeded to drive her to a patch of trees on the side of the road. They forced her to remove her clothes saying "Get them rags off, or I'll kill you and leave you down here in the woods".〔McGuire, ''At the Dark End of the Street'', p. xvi.〕 After she was forcibly undressed, Taylor begged to return home to her family, including a husband and an infant child. The assailants ignored her requests, all removed their clothes, and watched as Lovett ordered Taylor to lie down and for her to "act just like you do with your husband or I'll cut your damn throat".〔 She was raped by six men, including Lovett.
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