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The Rape of Recy Taylor

"She spoke up"

2019-05-30
7.8
en 91m
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.

Executive Producer

Amy Tiemann

Producer

Claire L. Chandler

Executive Producer

Mark Trustin

Director

Nancy Buirski

Writer

Nancy Buirski

Executive Producer

Barbara Dobkin

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Status

Released

Countries

  • United States of America

Companies

  • Augusta Films
  • Transform Films
  • Artemis Rising
  • Matador Films

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