Years before Oprah Winfrey’s stirring speech at the 2018 Golden Globe Awards in which the talk-show queen spoke about the tribulations of Recy Taylor, historian and author Danielle L. McGuire had already uncovered the story of the 24-year-old Black sharecropper who was raped by six White men in 1944 as she walked home from a late-night church service.
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