During her walk home from church one evening in 1944 in Abbeville, Ala., Recy Taylor was forcefully taken into the woods by six white men and then raped multiple times.
Afterward the men took her back to town, but threatened to kill her if she told anyone what happened.
But Taylor's story was shared, and when people at the NAACP heard about it they sent out an activist, Rosa Parks, to investigate.
Despite the rapists being identified, and at least one man's confession to the crimes, none were ever punished.