'The Rape of Recy Taylor' is a somber, vital tribute to black women in the Jim Crow era
On Sept. 3, 1944, in the small Alabama town of Abbeville, a 24-year-old black sharecropper named Recy Taylor was walking home from an evening church service with two other worshipers when seven white men pulled up in a Chevrolet.
Armed with knives and guns, the men forced Taylor into the back seat and drove to a secluded grove, where six of them gang-raped her for
