The rape of Recy Taylor [DVD] / director, Nancy Buirski ; produced by Nancy Buirski, Beth Hubbard, Claire L. Chandler, Susan Margolin ; written by Nancy Buirski ; a production of Augusta Films LLC, co-produced by Transform Films, Inc. in association with Artemis Rising and Matador Content.
Featuring Robert Corbitt, Alma Daniels, Crystal Feimster, Esther Cooper Jackson, James Johnson II, Danielle L. McGuire, Chris Money, Larry Smith, Recy Taylor; voices, Thomas Bernardi, Tom Gibbs, Jack Kyser, John L. Payne, Cynthia Erivo. Originally released as a motion picture in 2017. Inspired by At the dark end of the street / by Danielle L. McGuire. Wide screen (16x9, 1.78:1). Includes trailer.
Summary:
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.
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