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Recy Taylor

In this July 26, 1937 file photo, police escort two of the five recently freed "Scottsboro Boys," Olen Montgomery, wearing glasses, third left, and Eugene Williams, wearing suspenders, forth left through the crowd greeting them upon their arrival at Penn Station in New York. In a final chapter to one of the most important civil rights episodes in American history, Alabama lawmakers voted Thursday, April 4, 2013, to give posthumous pardons to the "Scottsboro Boys": nine black teens who were wrongly convicted of raping two white women in 1931. (AP Photo, File)

What infamous civil rights cases need closure?

David A. Love
OPINION - America’s civil rights history evokes a sense of pride and accomplishment, given the hard-fought battles waged in the courtroom and in the streets, and those who were maimed and martyred in the process...
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American religious leader and civil rights activist Reverrend Al Sharpton (left), Tawana Brawley, and attorney C. Vernon Mason, hold hands outside the State Supreme Court, New York, New York, July 20, 1990. The trio, at the court to attend the so-called 'Central Park Jopgger' trial, had been involved in a another high-profile rape case when, in the late 1980s, Brawley accused six men of kidnapping and rape. (Photo by New York Times Co./Getty Images)

Tawana Brawley 25 years later: Controversial NYC case still unsettled

Ronda Racha Penrice
theGRIO REPORT - Twenty five years ago 15-year-old Tawana Brawley was reportedly found dazed and confused lying in a garbage bag with torn and burned clothing, feces smeared over her body and 'KKK,' 'ni**er,' and 'b*tch' written on her torso...
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Civil rights-era rape victim revels in White House tour

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WASHINGTON (AP) - Recy Taylor is touring the nation's capital nearly seven decades after she was denied justice following a brutal assault...
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After 67 years, lawmakers apologize to rape victim

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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - The Senate gave final approval Thursday on a voice vote to a resolution that expresses "deepest sympathy and deepest regrets" to Recy Taylor...
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Rosa Parks' political journey didn't begin on the bus

Danielle L. McGuire
OPINION - On this 55th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott, perhaps we can finally end the myth of Parks as a simple seamstress...
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