The Rape of Recy Taylor
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Not the unremittingly depressing ordeal I feared, since much of what we see is the campaign to obtain justice for Taylor, gang-raped by young white men in 1944 in Alabama, and others who suffered similar depravity. Prosecution (doomed from the start, of course, given the time and place) of Taylor's case was led by a young NAACP activist named Rosa Parks.
Clips from "race films," including several by Oscar Micheaux, are used to provide visual imagery for the theme of racist rape--a bold but mostly unsuccessful strategy.
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