My @colorlines coverage: #Alabama House Approves Apology for #RecyTaylor #rape #racism

#Alabama House Passes Apology for #RecyTaylor’s Jim Crow-Era Gang #Rape /via @change

My latest RT @Colorlines: #RecyTaylor Gets a Personal Sorry, But No Apology From Alabama #racism #rape

Possible Apology to #RecyTaylor for Obstruction of Justice in Racist Gang #Rape #breakingnews #alabama

My op-ed in an #Alabama paper w/news & comment re: possible state apology to #RecyTaylor for 1944 #rape

At 91, Recy Taylor May Finally See #Alabama Acknowledge Her 1944 #Rape <my latest at Colorlines #racism

Taylor was one of many black women attacked by white men during an era in which sexual assault was used to informally enforce Jim Crow segregation. Their pain galvanized an anti-rape crusade that ultimately took a back seat to the push to dismantle officially sanctioned separation of the races, and slowly faded from the headlines.

Many of these rape victims never got justice and the desire for closure is still there, more than 60 years later — leaving some to wonder what, if anything, can be done to address the wrongs done to them.

“I didn’t get nothing, ain’t nothing been done about it,’’ Taylor, now 90, said in a telephone interview from her central Florida home. The AP is revealing Taylor’s identity because she has publicly identified herself as a victim of sexual assault.

Book Review

AT THE DARK END OF THE STREET

Black Women, Rape, and Resistance: A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power

By Danielle L. McGuire

Knopf. 324 pp. $27.95