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Recy Taylor
Although it was very dangerous for African Americans to speak out against white people during the Jim Crow era, Recy Taylor refused to remain silent about sexual violence. She bravely testified against the group of white men that kidna pped and rap ed her. Decades later, her story has been told in both a book and a documentary film.
Recy Taylor was born as Recy Corbitt on December 31, 1919. She grew up in Abbeville, Alabama to a sharecropping family. When she was 17 years old, her mother died and she was left to take care of her six younger siblings. As a you ng woman, she married Willie Guy Taylor and in 1941, the couple welcomed their daughter Joyce Lee. The small family lived in a rented sharecropper’s cabin in the ‘colored section’ of segregated Abbeville, Alabama. When their daughter was old enough to be taken care of by friends, Recy Taylor would go to work during the day. At night, Taylor could sometimes be found sewing or sitting on the porch with her husband. On September 3, 1944 however, Taylor decided to attend a special evening service at Rock Hill Holiness Church with her friend Fannie Daniels and her son West Daniels.
As the group walked home from church together, they noticed the same car kept passing by them several times. The green Chevrolet eventually stopped beside them with seven you ng white men inside. All armed with guns and knives, one of the men ordered Taylor and her friends to stop walking. When they did not stop, the man pointed a shotgun at them and forc ed Taylor to get into the car at gunpoint. Only 24-years-old at the time, Taylor was ab ducted by the men and taken to the woods. She begged to be returned home to her husband and daughter, but the men threatened to kill her and leave her in the woods. The men proceeded to blindfold her and six of them brutally ra ped her. She was then dumped out of the car on the side of the highway. Taylor survived the horrific attack and immediately tried to find her way home. Little did she know, right after she was kidna pped her friend Fannie Daniels reported the incident the authorities. Unable to find the Sheriff, Daniels found Will Cook, who was the former chief of police, and Taylor’s father, Benny Corbitt. Cook and Corbitt went out searching for Taylor and eventually found her on a road near the center of Abbeville. By the time they found her it was almost three in the morning. They took her back to Cook’s shop where her husband, the Daniels, and two police officers were waiting for her.
Taylor bravely reported the violent attack to the police. Fannie and West Daniels were able to track down the Henry County Sheriff, George Gamble. Although Taylor did not know the name of her assailants at the time, she was able to identify the car that they were in. That specific car belonged to one person in town, and the sheriff was able to identify right away that the owner was Hugo Wilson. When the sheriff brought him back to Cook’s store, Taylor identified Wilson as one of the rap ists. Wilson was taken to the jailhouse and he confessed to participating in the attack. He gave up the names of his accomplices including; U.S. Army Private Herbert Lovett, Billy Howerton, Dillard York, Luther Lee, Joe Culpepper and Robert Gamble. Wilson insisted that because they paid her, their kidn apping and brutalization could not be considered ra pe. After his confession, the sheriff released Wilson and sent him home. The next day, Taylor’s house was set on fire by white vigilantes. The Taylor family moved in with her father and siblings.
Even though Taylor reported the crime, witnesses confirmed her story, and one of the men confessed, the men were not brought into custody. Outraged by this injustice, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in Montgomery, Alabama got involved with the case. They sent activist Rosa Parks to investigate further and support the family. On October 3-4, 1944 an all-white, all-male grand jury heard Taylor’s case. After five minutes of deliberation, the jury dismissed the case. The NAACP and African Americans around the country continued to advocate for justice for Recy Taylor. Parks along with other activists formed the “Committee for Equal Justice for Mrs. Recy Taylor,” to raise awareness. With the help of voices such as W. E. B. DuBois, Mary Church Terrell, and Langston Hughes, the governor sent investigators and a second grand jury was held on February 14, 1945. By that time, three more of the men confessed to ra ping Taylor, but none of them were prosecuted.
In 2011, historian Danielle L. McGuire included Taylor’s story in her book entitled, At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Ra pe, and Resistance—a New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power. As a result, the Alabama Legislature issued a formal apology to Taylor almost 70 years after her assault. Recy Taylor died in her sleep on December 28, 2017, three weeks after the release of the documentary film The Ra pe of Recy Taylor.
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Louisa Ann Swain
On September 6, 1870, 70-year-old Louisa Ann Swain, a grandmother with white hair peeking out from beneath her bonnet, stepped up to the ballot box in Laramie, Wyoming and cast her vote in the general election. In doing so, she became the first woman to legally cast a ballot since 1807, the year New Jersey took away a woman’s right to vote.
Born in Norfolk, Virginia in 1800 or 1801 into a Quaker family, Swain’s father was a sea captain. When he did not come home from a voyage, 7-year-old Swain and her mother moved to Charleston, South Carolina to be closer to her mother's family. Shortly after the move, Swain’s mother died when Swain was around 10 years old and she moved into The Charleston Orphan House. At the time, there was a fine line between apprenticing with a family in exchange for shelter and food and adoption, and Swain seems to have had to navigate both worlds as a chi ld. Swain was first sent to a woman who promised to teach her needlework, spinning, and weaving, provide a little schooling, and decent living conditions. Swain stayed with this woman until 1818 when, for an unknown reason, she was sent back to the orphanage. She was immediately sent to another woman who was in the needle trade. Swain stayed with her for a year.
Shortly after she left the orphanage, sometime around 1821, she met and married Steven Swain, the owner of a chair factory. The two lived in Baltimore for a time and had four children. Swain and her husband then began moving west, first to Ohio and then Indiana. After one of her son’s moved to Wyoming, Swain and her husband followed and settled in Laramie to be close to him.
Wyoming was still a territory when Swain arrived. Granted territorial status in 1869, Wyoming’s law allowed certain women over the age of 21 to vote, own property, and serve in office. Women who wanted to cast a vote needed to prove they were seeking citizenship, a requirement that barred Native American and Chinese women from casting votes since at the time they legally could not become U.S. citizens. Black women were able to vote under this law, but it is unknown if any did and Wyoming had very few Black residents at the time. Wyoming’s territorial government had different reasons for granting women the right to vote: some thought it would attract more women to the sparsely populated territory while others thought that women played an important role on the frontier and had a right to decide how the territory should be run.
According to Laramie and Cheyenne newspapers, Swain became the first woman to legally cast a ballot since 1807 by 30 minutes. Swain’s vote beat that of Augusta C. Howe, the 27-year-old wife of the U.S. Marshall Church Howe of Cheyenne, Wyoming. No one at the time disputed Swain’s status.
Shortly after casting her historic ballot, Swain and her husband moved back to Baltimore to live near their daughter. Swain died in 1878 and is buried in Friends Burying Grounds on the Old Harford Road in Baltimore. The Louisa Swain Foundation, founded in 2001 in Laramie, is dedicated to celebrating and preserving her legacy. In October 2008, Congress passed a resolution making September 6, 2008 “Louisa Swain Day.” The day was celebrated for the first time in 2009 and continues to be celebrated annually in Laramie. There is also a statue of Swain in downtown Laramie.
Swain may have been one of the first women to legally cast a ballot but she certainly was not the last. When Wyoming received statehood in 1890, it continued to allow women to vote. After decades of work, protest, marches, advocacy, and lobbying, the United States ratified the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. The Nineteenth Amendment states, “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.” While the Amendment opened the door for women to legally vote across the United States, many women were still barred through other means such as: intimidation, violence, poll taxes, literacy tests, criminal convictions, their race, denying their citizenship, and their immigration status. Many women in the United States today still cannot cast a vote without serious complications, road blocks, and voter suppression. Louisa Ann Gardner Swain serves as one woman in a long line of women who have and will continue to cast their vote.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
Abolitionist author, Harriet Beecher Stowe rose to fame in 1851 with the publication of her best-selling book, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which highlighted the evils of slavery, angered the slaveholding South, and inspired pro-slavery copy-cat works in defense of the institution of slavery.
Stowe was born on June 14, 1811 in Litchfield, Connecticut, the seventh chi ld of famed Congregational minister Lyman Beecher and Roxana Foote Beecher. Her famous siblings include elder sister Catherine (11 years her senior), and Henry Ward Beecher, the famous preacher and reformer. Stowe’s mother died when she was five years old and while her father remarried, her sister Catherine became the most pronounced influence on you ng Harriet’s life. At age eight, she began her education at the Litchfield Female Academy. Later, in 1824, she attended Catherine Beecher’s Hartford Female Seminary, which exposed you ng women to many of the same courses available in men’s academies. Stowe’s proclivity for writing was evident in the essays she produced for school. Stowe became a teacher, working from 1829 to 1832 at the Hartford Female Seminary.
In 1832, when Stowe’s father Lyman accepted the position of president of the esteemed Lane Seminary in Cincinnati, Ohio, she went with him. There, she met some of the great minds and reformers of the day, including noted abolitionists. Smitten with the landscape of the West, she published her first book, Primary Geography, in 1833, which celebrated the diverse cultures and vistas she encountered. In 1836, she met and married Calvin Stowe, a professor at the Lane Seminary. He encouraged her writing, they had seven children, and weathered financial and other problems during their decades-long union. Stowe would write countless articles, some were published in the renowned women’s magazine of the times, Godey’s Lady’s Book. She also wrote 30 books, covering a wide range of topics from homemaking to religion in nonfiction, as well as several novels.
The turning point in Stowe’s personal and literary life came in 1849, when her son died in a cholera epidemic that claimed nearly 3000 lives in her region. She later said that the loss of her chi ld inspired great empathy for enslaved mothers who had their children sold away from them. The passage of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which legally compelled Northerners to return runaway slaves, infuriated Stowe and many in the North. This was when Stowe penned what would become her most famous work, the novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Originally serialized in the National Era, Stowe saw her tale as a call to arms for Northerners to defy the Fugitive Slave Act. The vivid characters and great empathy inspired by the book was further aided by Stowe’s strong Christianity.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin was released as a book in March 1852, selling 300,000 copies in the US in the first year. It was later performed on stage and translated into dozens of languages. When some claimed her portrait of slavery was inaccurate, Stowe published Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin, a book of primary source historical documents that backed up her account, including the narratives of notable former slaves Frederick Douglass and Josiah Henderson. Southern pro-slavery advocates countered with books of their own, such as Mary Henderson Eastman’s Aunt Phillis’s Cabin; Or, Southern Life as It Is. This work and others like it attempted to portray slavery as a benevolent institution, but never received the acclaim or widespread readership of Stowe’s.
Stowe used her fame to petition to end slavery. She toured nationally and internationally, speaking about her book and donating some of what she earned to help the antislavery cause. She also wrote extensively on behalf of abolition, most notably her “Appeal to Women of the Free States of America, on the Present Crisis on Our Country,” which she hoped would help raise public outcry to defeat the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act.
During the Civil War, Stowe became one of the most visible professional writers. For years, popular folklore claimed that President Abraham Lincoln, upon meeting Stowe in 1862, said, “So you’re the woman who wrote the book that started this great war.” That quote, published in a 1911 biography of Stowe by her son Charles, has been called into question, as Stowe herself and two others present at the meeting make no reference to it in their accounts (and Charles was only a boy at the time of the meeting).
In 1873, Stowe and her family moved to Hartford, Connecticut, where she remained until her death in 1896, summering in Florida. She helped breathe new life into the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, and was involved with efforts to launch the Hartford Art School, later part of the University of Hartford.
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