Recy Taylor, the young mother and sharecropper who spearheaded an anti-rape activism movement in the Jim Crow South after being abducted and gang raped in 1944 by six White men, died Thursday in an Abbeville, Alabama, nursing home. She was 97.

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Recy Taylor, the young mother and sharecropper who spearheaded an anti-rape activism movement in the Jim Crow South after being abducted and gang raped in 1944 by six White men, died Thursday in an Abbeville, Alabama, nursing home. She was 97.
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