Recy Taylor’s ‘Baby’ Brother: Decades Before #MeToo, She Was ‘a Fighter’

After she was raped and their house firebombed, her father spent every night for a year perched in a Chinaberry tree overlooking the street, holding a shotgun.

Michael Daly 

Special Correspondent

Published Jan. 14 2018 9:35PM EST 

Michael Daly

Special Correspondent

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