Recy Taylor, a 24-year-old black mom and sharecropper, was gang raped by 6 white boys in 1944 Alabama. Usual in Jim Crow South, few women spoke up in worry for their lives. Not Recy Taylor, that bravely recognized her rapists. The NAACP sent its chief rape investigator Rosa Parks, that rallied assistance as well as set off an unmatched outcry for justice. The film reveals a legacy of physical abuse of black women and also reveals Rosa Parks' intimate function in Recy Taylor's story.
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Recy Taylor, a 24-year-old black mom and sharecropper, was gang raped by 6 white boys in 1944 Alabama. Usual in Jim Crow South, few women spoke up in worry for their lives. Not Recy Taylor, that bravely recognized her rapists. The NAACP sent its chief rape investigator Rosa Parks, that rallied assistance as well as set off an unmatched outcry for justice. The film reveals a legacy of physical abuse of black women and also reveals Rosa Parks' intimate function in Recy Taylor's story.
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