Mrs. Recy Taylor was gang raped by six white boys in 1944 Alabama. Unbroken, she spoke up and fought for justice with help from Rosa Parks and legions of women.... (Full plot summary below)
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Mrs. Recy Taylor was gang raped by six white boys in 1944 Alabama. Unbroken, she spoke up and fought for justice with help from Rosa Parks and legions of women.
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| The NationStuart KlawansThe result is a striking hybrid: at once impressionistic and argumentative, focused on individuals but also alert to the role, frequently unheralded, that women played in the civil-rights movement. Not to be missed. |
| Financial TimesNigel AndrewsIt's a strong film: chastening, shocking, steeped in fractious ironies. |
| Independent (UK)Geoffrey Macnab[Director Nancy] Buirski's documentary acknowledges [Recy Taylor's] role in a bigger story. |
| GuardianPeter Bradshaw[A] harrowing and very instructive documentary... |
| Film InquiryAmyana BartleyBuirski's documentary is eye opening. It challenges the historical status-quo and draws attention towards African-American women's contributions to the Civil Rights movement. |
| NOW TorontoKevin RitchieIntimate interviews set the stage for the director to zoom out and connect the family's story to the ways Black women were dehumanized under slavery and in the Jim Crow South. |
| RogerEbert.comScout TafoyaEverything about The Rape of Recy Taylor aims to stay with you, to present the ugly history as something that cannot be scrubbed from the chambers of our memory. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzI would recommend it for those who think they need to see it as an overlooked Civil Rights story. |
| Times (UK)Larushka Ivan-ZadehVery much of the Me Too moment, this uneven but important documentary exists to give a voice to the voiceless, in this case the "staggering" number of black women raped by white men throughout US history. |
| Observer (UK)Simran HansThe subject matter is harrowing enough without extra strings. |
