The Rape of Recy Taylor 2019

She spoke up

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Documentary

Recy Taylor, a 24-year-old black mother and sharecropper, was gang raped by six white boys in 1944 Alabama. Common in Jim Crow South, few women spoke up in fear for their lives. Not Recy Taylor, who bravely identified her rapists. The NAACP sent its chief rape investigator Rosa Parks, who rallied support and triggered an unprecedented outcry for justice. The film exposes a legacy of physical abuse of black women and reveals Rosa Parks’ intimate role in Recy Taylor’s story.

Release Date 2019-05-30
Runtime 1h 31m
Directors Nancy Buirski, Rex Miller
Producers Barbara Dobkin, Bobby Kondrat, Geralyn White Dreyfous, Regina K. Scully, Jack Turner, Claire L. Chandler, Mark Trustin, Amy Tiemann
Writer Nancy Buirski