Photo from this photo gallery. These are part of the book 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
“Danielle McGuire writes about the rape in 1944 of a twenty-four-year-old mother and sharecropper, Recy Taylor, who strolled toward home after an evening of singing and praying at the Rock Hill Holiness Church in Abbeville, Alabama.”