Recy Taylor, Alabama woman raped by six white men, dies at 97

[Dennis Donovan]

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/recy-taylor-alabama-woman-raped-six-white-men-dies-97-n833336

Recy Taylor, an African-American woman from Abbeville, Alabama, whose abduction and rape by six white men in 1944 made national headlines, died Thursday morning, her brother Robert Corbitt told NBC News.

She would have turned 98 on Sunday.

Corbitt said she passed peacefully in a nursing home in Abbeville.

“(She was) a brave woman and a fighter who tried her best to get it known all over the world,” he said during a phone interview from Alabama.

Taylor recently made headlines again as the film “The Rape of Recy Taylor” made its North America debut at the New York Film Festival this fall.

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RIP Ms Taylor.

[DAMANgoldberg]

1. This is why I love this community

My home state is Alabama, and this is all new to me. Especially the part that leads to Rosa Parks and then forward to today. It all ties in, and TIL. Thanks for sharing this with us.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

2. What a deeply shitty headline.

[Dennis Donovan]

3. Agreed. Diminishes the rest of her life.

[phylny]

4. The headline is poor - I thought a 97-year-old woman died as a result of being raped

by six men. I'm not discounting the horror she endured in her past, but I really thought she was killed instead of died of natural causes.