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Still no Justice (or civil rights-era rapesATLANTA (AF) — Years before Rosa Parks fought for justice from her seat on a Montgomery bus, she fought for Recy Taylor.Parks was an NAACP activist crisscrossing Alabama in 1944 when she came across the case of Taylor, a 24-year-old wife and mother who was brutally gang raped and dumped on the side of a rural road. Taylor survived only to watch two all-white, all-male grand juries decline to indict the six white men who admitted to authorities that they assaulted her.Taylor was one of many black women attacked by white men during an era in which sexual assault was used to informally enforce Jim Crow segregation. Their pain galvanized an anti-rape crusade that ultimately took aback seat to the push to dismantle officially sanctioned separation of th* races, and slowly faded from the headlines.Many of these rape victims never 'got justice and the desire for closure is still there, more than 60 years later — leaving some to wonder what, if anything, can be done to address the wrongs done to them.“I didn’t get nothing, ain’t nothing been done about it,” Taylor, now 90, told The Associated Press in a phone interview from her central Florida home. The AP is revealing Taylor’s identity because she has publicly identified herself as a victim of sexual assault.“I was an honest person and living right,” Taylor said. “They shouldn’t have did that. I never give them no reason to do it.”
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Northwest Florida Daily News
Fort Walton Beach, Florida, US
Sun, Oct 17, 2010
Page 9
Full Page
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