13 Facts About Recy Taylor

Recy Taylor was an African-American woman from Abbeville in Henry County, Alabama.

Recy Taylor was born and raised in a sharecropping family in the Jim Crow era Southern United States.

Recy Taylor Corbitt was born on December 31,1919, in rural Alabama, to a family of sharecropping farmworkers.

Recy Taylor continued to work in sharecropping and by 1944, she had married Willie Guy Taylor and they had a young daughter, Joyce Lee.

Recy Taylor was a 24-year-old mother, and walking home from church on September 3,1944, with her friend Fannie Daniel and Daniel's teenage son West, when a car pulled up behind them on the road.

Recy Taylor's kidnapping was reported immediately to the police by Daniel.

The news coverage of the second hearing was more hostile towards Recy Taylor based on the false claims of her being a prostitute.

Recy Taylor lived in Abbeville with her family for two decades after the attack.

Recy Taylor lived for many years in Winter Haven, Florida, until her family brought her back to Abbeville, due to failing health.

Recy Taylor received the apologies on Mother's Day in 2011, when she visited Rock Hill Holiness Church in Abbeville, the very church where she worshipped the night of the crime.

In 2011, Recy Taylor visited the White House and attended a forum on Rosa Parks at the National Press Club.

Recy Taylor loved going to church, she loved to sing.

Recy Taylor was buried next to her daughter's grave at New Mount Zion Freewill Baptist Church.