Recy Taylor and the Voices of Black Women

Rewriting the History of the Civil Rights Movement

Recy Taylor in the 1940’s and in 2017 shortly before she died at age 98

On the night of September 3, 1944, Mrs. Recy Taylor and some friends were walking home after dark from their church service in Abbeville, Alabama. Recy was a married mother of one child, and a devout woman. As they were walking along the road, a car pulled up close to them and seven …