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Recy Taylor, a 24-year-old black mother and sharecropper, was gang raped by six white boys in 1944 Alabama. Common in Jim Crow South, few women spoke up in fear for their lives. Not Recy Taylor, who bravely identified her rapists. The NAACP sent its rape investigator Rosa Parks, who rallied support and triggered an unprecedented outcry for justice.
Our film exposes a legacy of physical abuse of black women and reveals Rosa Parks’ intimate role in Recy Taylor’s story. An attempted rape against Parks was but one inspiration for her ongoing fight for justice for countless women like Taylor. The 1955 bus boycott was an end result, not a beginning.
More and more women are now speaking up after rape. Our film tells the story of black women who spoke up when danger was greatest; it was their noble efforts to take back their bodies that led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott and movements that followed. The 2017 Women's March and the ongoing Black Lives Matter movement are linked to their courage. From sexual aggression on ‘40s southern streets to today’s college campuses and to the threatened right to choose, it is control of women’s bodies that powered the movement in Recy Taylor’s day and fuels our outrage today.
Original Release
05/25/2018
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Cynthia Erivo | Rosa Parks |
Recy Taylor | Self |
Robert Corbitt | Self |
Alma Daniels | Self |
Crystal Feimster | Self |
Esther Cooper Jackson | Self |
Danielle L. McGuire | Self |
James Johnson II | Self |
Chris Money | Self |
Jack Kyser | Dillard York / Willie Joe Culpepper |
Directors
Writers
Danielle L. McGuire, Nancy Buirski
Cast
Name | Character |
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Cynthia Erivo | Rosa Parks |
Recy Taylor | Self |
Robert Corbitt | Self |
Alma Daniels | Self |
Crystal Feimster | Self |
Esther Cooper Jackson | Self |
Danielle L. McGuire | Self |
James Johnson II | Self |
Chris Money | Self |
Jack Kyser | Dillard York / Willie Joe Culpepper |
Tom Gibbs | Luther Lee / Herbert Lovett |
Tommy Bernardi | Billy Howerton / Hugo Wilson |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Leah Culton | Executive Producer |
Barbara Dobkin | Executive Producer |
CarolAnne Dolan | Executive Producer |
Geralyn White Dreyfous | Executive Producer |
Derrick Harkins | Executive Producer |
Bobby Kondrat | Executive Producer |
Todd Lubin | Executive Producer |
Jay Peterson | Executive Producer |
Regina K. Scully | Executive Producer |
Nick Stuart | Executive Producer |
Amy Tiemann | Executive Producer |
Mark Trustin | Executive Producer |
Jack Turner | Executive Producer |
Judy Aley | Producer |
Claire L. Chandler | Producer |
Laurens Grant | Producer |
Beth Hubbard | Producer |
Susan Margolin | Producer |
Vanessa Martino | Producer |
Sam Pollard | Producer |
Robyn Yigit Smith | Producer |
Nancy Buirski | Producer |