The Rape of Recy Taylor 
Recy Taylor, a 24-year-old black mother and sharecropper, was gang raped by six white men in 1944 Alabama. Common in Jim Crow South, few women spoke up in fear for their lives. Not Recy Taylor, who bravely identified her rapists.
The NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) sent its chief rape investigator (and civil rights activist) Rosa Parks, who rallied support and triggered an unprecedented outcry for justice.
The Rape of Recy Taylor exposes a legacy of physical abuse of black women and reveals Rosa Parks’ intimate role in Recy Taylor’s story. An attempted rape against Parks was but one inspiration for her ongoing fight for justice for countless women like Taylor. The 1955 bus boycott was an end result, not a beginning.
Based on the "New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power" book by historian Danielle L. McGuire, At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape and Resistance.
The screening on Mon 4 Jun will be followed by a discussion withJan Melia, CEO of Women's AidYassin Brunger, QUB LawElaine Crory, QUB PoliticsDr Jennie Carlsten, QUB Film Studies
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