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FILE - In this Oct. 7, 2010 file photo, Recy Taylor appears at her home in Winter Haven, Fla. In 1944, Taylor, then 24, married and a mother, was raped by six white youths while she walked to her Abbeville, Alabama, home after an evening church service. Her story and its connection to female civil rights activists are illuminated in filmmaker Nancy Buirski's documentary &quot;The Rape of Recy Taylor,&quot; airing 9 p.m. EDT Monday on the Starz channel. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack, File)

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FILE- In this May 12, 2011, file photo, Recy Taylor stands in Lafayette Park after touring the White House. Taylor, a black Alabama woman whose rape by six white men in 1944 drew national attention, died Thursday, Dec. 28, 2017, according to her brother Robert Corbitt. She was 97. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

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