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The Rape of Recy Taylor

Recy Taylor, a 24-year-old black mom as well as sharecropper, was gang raped by 6 white boys in 1944 Alabama. Common in Jim Crow South, few ladies spoke out in worry for their lives. Not Recy Taylor, who bravely determined her rapists. The NAACP sent its chief rape detective Rosa Parks, who rallied support and also caused an unmatched uproar for justice. The film exposes a legacy of physical abuse of black women as well as discloses Rosa Parks' intimate function in Recy Taylor's story.

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