Courtesy of Alabama State University Alabama State University’s National Center for the Study of Civil Rights and African American Culture (National Center) will host a special Black History Month forum, featuring a panel discussion of an infamous case involving a sexual assault against a South Alabama Black woman, Mrs. Recy Taylor. A number of Mrs. Taylor’s family members will be in attendance. The case involved the 1944 rape of Mrs. Recy Taylor, a 24-year-old wife, mother and sharecropper. The attack took place in Abbeville, Alabama, by a gang of six white males. The forum is based on this year’s national Black History
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