What does the word (RECY)on the red buttons they’re wearing mean?
Read the article. It explains who Recy was.
What does the word (RECY)on the red buttons they’re wearing mean?
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It’s the name of woman who was gang-raped by 6 whites in the 1940s (don’t recall exactly when)who died this year in her 90s.
After Oprah Winfrey’s “Time is up” speech at the Golden Globes earlier this month, some took to Twitter to say the actress/TV personality had given her State of the Union speech.
At the Globes, Winfrey said she hoped the legacy of Recy Taylor, a black Alabama woman who was raped by six white men in the 1940s who were never charged with the crime, hoped that Taylor’s truth would go “marching on.”
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article197499999.html#storylink=cpy
Recy Taylor, an African-American woman who was abducted and
raped in Alabama over 60 years ago, but whose perpetrators
were never charged.