The Rape of Recy Taylor
Hosted by Zen Peacemakers
Virtual
When
Feb 11, 8:00 PM EST
Price
$6.00 USD per person
Available in
Worldwide
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About the event
For over 25 years, the Zen Peacemakers have been annually Bearing Witness at Auschwitz/Birkenau. In this spirit, it has long been our desire to create a bearing witness retreat around America’s racial history – as seen through the eyes of African Americans. The intention has always been to engage without becoming a tourist; to seek unity without ‘othering’ those with whom we Bear Witness.
This year we plan on walking the grounds of a deep history in the expansion of slavery, Jim Crow, and the Civil Rights movement – Selma and Montgomery.
Your support in viewing this film will help fund our Bearing Witness Retreat in Alabama from April 24 - 29th. Thank you, Zen Peacemakers.
About the film
Recy Taylor was a 24-year-old mother and sharecropper in Abbeville, Alabama when she was abducted at gunpoint by seven white men and raped by six of them while walking home from church one evening in 1944. In spite of Jim Crow culture that made it terrifying for a black woman to report a rape, Taylor identified her rapists and pressed for legal recourse. The NAACP took up Taylor’s cause and sent its best investigator, a young activist named Rosa Parks, to rally support and lay groundwork for what would become an unprecedented outcry for justice.
Genre
Documentary
Runtime
2h 10m
Released
2017
Director
Nancy Buirski
Producer
Nancy Buirski, Claire L Chandler, Susan Margolin
Executive Producer
Dr Amy Tiemann
Writer
Nancy Buirski