Recy Taylor -handbag

This wonderful gold leather handbag measuring 13' X 11". It's fully lined with two interior leather pockets and two exterior pockets. The leather handle is a creative piece with no definite shaped design, yet easy to carry, This is definitely a one of a kind as all "Handle it handbags" are. The embellished pieces on the front are  mixed with hair on hide (leather) as well as snake skin and another soft skinned leather, in brown and golds. This easy to carry and can go anywhere handbag is a keeper and conversation starter.                          You're never alone with a handbag Recy Taylor,(1919-2017) a 24-year-old black mother and sharecropper, was walking home from church in Abbeville, Alabama, on Sept. 3, 1944, when she was abducted and gang-raped by six white men. The crime, which N.A.A.C.P. activist Rosa Parks investigated and which garnered extensive coverage in the black press, never saw an indictment for the accused.          In the film “The Rape of Recy Taylor,” director