An Alabama legislator wants the state to apologize to a black woman raped in 1944 by a group of white men who later avoided prosecution. Democratic state Rep. Dexter Grimsley says he is preparing a resolution apologizing to Recy Taylor, who was 24-years-old and living in her native Henry County when she was gang-raped in Abbeville. Two all-white, all-male grand juries declined to bring charges. Taylor was one of the black women highlighted in the book \"At The Dark End of the Street\" by Danielle McGuire, history professor at Wayne State University. McGuire\'s book highlighted the cases of women who endured unwanted sexual encounters from white men during the days of segregation in the south.

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