Name: Documentary: The Rape of Recy Taylor
Start: 2019-09-04T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2019-09-04T20:00:00-05:00
Location: Sun Prairie Public Library

Documentary: The Rape of Recy Taylor

6:00pm - 8:00pm

Community Room

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Library Branch: Sun Prairie Public Library

Room: Community Room

Age Group: Adults

Program Type: Movie

Event Details:

Recy Taylor, a 24-year-old black mother and sharecropper, was gang raped by six white boys in 1944 Alabama. Common in Jim Crow South, few women spoke up in fear for their lives. Not Recy Taylor, who bravely identified her rapists. The NAACP sent its ...