Tag: Recy Taylor

Civil Rights Era Cases: Recy Taylor and the Failure of Justice

Jan 20 2026 / History & Culture

Recy Taylor, a Black sharecropper raped by seven white men in 1944 Alabama, became the center of a groundbreaking civil rights campaign led by Rosa Parks. Despite overwhelming evidence, the justice system refused to indict her attackers-until a national outcry forced a historic apology decades later.