Oprah's Speech On Recy Taylor

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Oprah’s amazing speech starts off with her talking about her being a little girl watching the Academy Awards watching history be made when Sidney received the Best Actor Award. Then to her thanking and naming a few people who have helped her come to where she is now. She begins mentioning the gratitude she holds for the women who have come across abuse and/or assault in their lives and still continued to provide for their families and pursue their dreams. She mentions a woman by the name Recy Taylor, a woman who died December 28, 2017, who was taken by 6 armed white men and were raped by them on her way home from church in 1944. Rosa Parks was the lucky woman to work on Recy’s case and they fought for justice. “For too long, women have not

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