Film Screening: the Rape of Recy Taylor

Monday, April 9, 2018 at 7:00pm - 10:00pm
AFI Silver Theatre - 8633 Colesville Rd, Silver Spring, MD 20910 (map)

Film Screening: the Rape of Recy Taylor

While accepting the Cecil B. DeMille Award at February's Golden Globe ceremony, Oprah Winfrey invoked the name of Recy Taylor, a woman who 74 years ago, as a young black mother and sharecropper in rural Alabama, boldly stood against the systemic violence and injustice of the Jim Crow South. Nancy Buirski's (THE LOVING STORY) heart-wrenching documentary tells Recy's incredible story. In 1944, the then-24-year-old Recy was abducted and raped by six white men. Recy's safest option would've been to remain silent. She did not. At great personal risk, Recy identified her rapists, and the NAACP sent a young investigator named Rosa Parks to work on the case. Together, the women rallied support and triggered an unprecedented outcry for justice that paved the way for the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and the movements that followed. Recy Taylor died in December, 2017, at 97, but her bravery continues to inspire and ignite, as relevant in 2018 as it was in 1944. There will be a panel discussion following the film screening.

This event is hosted by AFI Silver Theater and Cultural Center and is co-presented by Aha! Moment and the DC Rape Crisis Center. 

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