Alabama Town Apologizes to 91-Year-Old for World War II-Era Rape

Alabama Town Apologizes to 91-Year-Old for World War II-Era Rape

Officials of the small town of Abbeville, Alabama, have publicly apologized to a 91-year-old African-American woman for not prosecuting the white men who raped her in 1944.

Recy Taylor, then 24, was married, a mother and living in Henry County, was walking home from church with two friends when she was abducted at knife point by seven white men, driven to a secluded area and raped repeatedly.

Two all-white, all-male grand juries declined to bring charges against the culprits. Local police were faulted for mishandling the investigation and harassing Taylor, whose home was firebombed two days after the crime.

Her case attracted the attention of NAACP activist Rosa Parks (before she became an icon by refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery city bus), who spearheaded the creation of the “Alabama Committee for Equal Justice for Mrs. Recy Taylor.”

http://www.allgov.com/Controversies/ViewNews/Alabama_Town_Apologizes_to_91_Year_Old_for_World_War_II_Era_Rape_110328

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