General Description of Recy Taylor Case

It was a time of civil unrest and when racism was full blown and allowed to be carried out under the now I see you, now I don’t by the eyes of a one sided law.

Recy Taylor was only twenty four years old when the traumatic events occurred that would forever change her life.

It was 1944 and Recy Taylor was walking home from church alone when seven white men pulled up alongside her and forced her into their car by a knife and by gun point. They drove her to a deserted grove of trees where six of the seven men proceeded to forcibly rape her in her hometown of Abbeville in Southeastern Alabama. She was then left on the side of an isolated area.

The all-white male grand jury refused to indict the suspects after the attack and so they were free. Recy Taylors brother Robert who is now 74 years old said that law enforcement authorities tried to blame the attack on his sister. He said his family was threatened after the attack and that his sister’s house was firebombed and that his father had to sit up at night just to guard the house.

Recy Taylor is now ninety one years old and the state of Alabama legislature has just recently officially apologized to the elderly black woman who underwent this horrific act nearly seven decades ago as she was just walking home from church.

The senate gave final approval Thursday on a voice vote to a resolution that expresses deepest sympathy and deepest regret to Recy Taylor who is now living in Florida. She told the associated press last year that she believes the men who attacked her in 1944 are all dead now but that she still wanted an apology from the state of Alabama.

The house approved the resolution last month, now it goes to Governor Bently for his signature, who says that he’s not familiar with the case but sees no reason why he wouldn’t sign it.

The resolution by Democratic State Representative Grimsley of Newville Alabama says the failure to prosecute the men was morally abhorrent and repugnant and that the police had bungled the investigation and consistently harassed Taylor and her family, local leaders acknowledge that her attackers escaped prosecution in the past because of racism.

Senator Billy Beasley states the state of Alabama apologizes for the incident that occurred to Mrs. Taylor many years ago and we wish God’s speed for her and continued best wishes.

Miss Taylor in my eyes at least has got to be women full of grace and courage, as I read her story I felt angry at first as I remember my own struggles and the lives brothers and sisters, mom and dad and our own personal struggles with racism through the years. I was born and raised in what people now call a bi-racial family, however if you look at most applications it often other. My mother is from Slovackia and my father was African American and it was also at a time of civil uprest , during the civil riots. But my father was strong and like Recy Taylor was courageous and taught forgiveness.

Matthew: 6: 14,15: for if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.But, if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

Ephesians 1: 7, in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of his grace.