The real story of Recy Taylor who Oprah paid tribute to in Golden Globes speech a week after her death; She was kidnapped, gang raped by six white men, dumped by the side of the road - then ignored

In a Golden Globe Awards that reflected the growing tide of social change sweeping Hollywood, Oprah Winfrey used her speech to invoke the name of an African-American woman whose kidnap and rape by a white gang in 1944 was ignored by police. Recy Taylor's plight encapsulated the racial divide in the Jim Crow South and became a lightning rod for civil rights struggles around America. She died aged 97 on December 29, 73 years after an all-white, all-male jury refused to indict her six white attackers - despite their admission of guilt to authorities. Then, aged just 24, the married woman was walking home from church with two friends when a car carrying seven men approached. The men kidnapped her at gunpoint, before driving to a grove of pine trees at the side of a deserted road. Told she would be killed if she went to the police, brave Taylor put her faith in the justice system and identified the men but none were ever prosecuted.