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NEGRESS ALLEGES CRIMINAL ASSAULT BY WHITE MENNew York PM reports Him a coloured woman, Mrs Recy Taylor, 22, living ut Abbeville I Alabama . was seized and raped by six white men while she was returning from church.The alleged incident occurred on September 3. Taylor stated tliat she was taken In a motorcar to a lonely spot, stripped and assaulted, and then driven Into Abbeville and left naked in a street.Some of the alleged assailants were identified, but the local grand Jurv dismissed the case on September 10. and a committee for equal Justie.: for Recy Taylor has been forrv'-i in New York
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Melbourne Argus

Melbourne, Victoria, AU

Fri, Dec 08, 1944

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