“The Rape of Recy Taylor” Documents Black Mother Gang Raped by 6 White Boys In 1944 [Trailer]

“The Rape of Recy Taylor” [Trailer]

The trailer for The Rape of Recy Taylor has been released. 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 chief rape investigator Rosa Parks, who rallied support and triggered an unprecedented outcry for justice.

Directed by Nancy Buirski, the director of By Sidney Lumet and The Loving Story, is headed to the Venice Film Festival with the film. The story of Recy Taylor exposes a legacy of physical abuse of black women and reveals Rosa Parks’ intimate role in Recy Taylor’s story. An attempted rape against Parks was but one inspiration for her ongoing work to find justice for countless women like Taylor. The 1955 bus boycott was an end result, not a beginning.

The film tells the story of black women who spoke up when danger was greatest; it was their noble efforts to take back their bodies that led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott and movements that followed.

See the trailer below.

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