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.

Produced by Transform Films and Odyssey Impact

Documentary

The Rape of Recy Taylor

Nancy Buirski

Claire L Chandler

Susan Margolin

Dr Amy Tiemann

2017 Venice Film Festival

2017 Women Film Critics Circle Awards

2017 Chicago International Film Festival

2018 Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival

2018 Image Awards

2018 Peabody Award Documentary

Human Rights Nights Special Prize for Human Rights

2018 Venice Biennale

New Yorker

The Guardian

The Rape of Recy Taylor

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