Rosa Parks - Rosa investigated the gang-rape of Recy Taylor

Time: 1944

Place: Alabama, U.S.

Details: In 1944, in her capacity as secretary, she investigated the gang-rape of Recy Taylor, a black woman from Abbeville, Alabama. Parks and other civil rights activists organized "The Committee for Equal Justice for Mrs. Recy Taylor", launching what the Chicago Defender called "the strongest campaign for equal justice to be seen in a decade."

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