1944 - Crime

Crime

A gang of white youths at Abbeville, Ala., abducts and rapes Recy Taylor, 24, a black wife and mother. One member of the gang confesses and names his accomplices, but prosecutors cannot find a grand jury that will hand down an indictment. A National Committee for Equal Justice distributes pamphlets written by a reporter and a prominent black writer suggesting that the youths believed they would not be punished and that white women are only slightly safer than black women from such attacks.