Media mogul, Oprah Winfrey, continues to pay her respects to Recy Taylor, a black woman who fought for justice after six white men abducted and raped her in 1944.
Winfrey visited Taylor's gravesite in Abbeville, Alabama, on Tuesday while she was on assignment in the small town, WDHN News reported. Winfrey recently honored Recy Taylor for her brave acts, when she accepted the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 75th Golden Globe Awards.
RT ABC "Oprah Winfrey visited an Alabama cemetery to pay respects to Recy Taylor, the civil rights hero she spoke about in her emotional Golden Globes speech. https://t.co/Q2blOpWNpW
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Winfrey told WDHN that she was in Alabama for a 60 Minutes story, and decided to "pay homage and pay respects" to Taylor.
Oprah told ABC News that visiting Taylor's grave meant a lot to her:
“ I didn’t even know who Recy Taylor was until maybe a couple of years ago, and … one of the reasons I wanted to use her as a part of my Golden Globes speech is because I wanted everybody to know that the #MeToo movement didn’t just start now,”
NPR reports that in the years after Taylor's assault, news of the attack and local authorities' lack of action spread. The black community and the NAACP sought justice Taylor. Civil rights activist, Rosa Parks investigated the case and pushed for an indictment. However, for a second time, the suspects were not prosecuted.
Before her death in January, Taylor said she wanted an apology from officials the LA Times reported.
"It would mean a whole lot to me," Taylor said. "The people who done this to me … they can't do no apologizing. Most of them is gone."
The Alabama legislature passed a resolution apologizing to Taylor in 2011.
