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Five Minutes: Recy Taylor

Recy Taylor was 24, walking home from church in Abbeville, Alabama, on September 3, 1944, when seven armed white men forced her into a car and six of them raped her. She reported it that night. One of them admitted it and named the rest. Two all-white grand juries refused to indict. Nobody was ever charged. Rosa Parks came to investigate. Alabama apologized in 2011, and she lived to hear it.

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