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Recy Taylor, Who Fought for Justice After a 1944 Rape, Dies at 97 – The New York Times
Recy Taylor, a 24-year-old African-American sharecropper, was walking home from church in Abbeville, Ala., on the night of Sept. 3, 1944, when she was abducted and raped by six white men.
The crime was extensively covered in the black press and an early catalyst for the civil rights movement. The N.A.A.C.P. sent a young activist from its Montgomery, Ala., chapter named Rosa Parks to investigate. African-Americans around the country demanded that the men be prosecuted.
Recy Taylor, Who Fought for Justice After a 1944 Rape, Dies at 97 – The New York Times
Firefighters ‘rescue’ Alabama teen girl from giant Barney head
“The head was closing in on me,” Darby Risner told AL.com. “It was like a stuck-in-a-small-place-and-can’t-get-out-panicking.”
Firefighters ‘rescue’ Alabama teen girl from giant Barney head
Photo of the day: Sunrise over a pier at the Gulf Shores
Photo by Michael Riffe (Orange Beach, AL); Gulf Shores, Alabama
