Using newsreel footage, home videos, “race films” (movies made for black audiences which often covered cases that the white police would not touch) and archive photographs, Buirski’s film draws on the various modes of expression and protest that the Taylor case brought into focus.

Through these mediums, we learn that Parks rallied support for Taylor, triggering an unprecedented outcry for justice. But, while their courage led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the era-defining civil rights movements that followed (think #MeToo, #TimesUp and #SheSpokeUp), Taylor herself was left behind.

Even under pressure, and despite the men’s confessions to authorities, two grand juries declined to indict the men; no charges were ever brought against her assailants. Indeed, as the documentary reveals, many went on to be recognised as war heroes in Korea and Vietnam.

Now, though, her story will finally be shared in a completely different world – one in which we are all too aware of the fact that men take advantage of women every day, in every walk of life, and are rarely brought to justice.

As Oprah Winfrey said in her now-iconic 2018 Golden Globes acceptance speech: “[Taylor] lived as we all have lived, too many years in a culture broken by brutally powerful men…

“For too long, women have not been heard or believed if they dare speak the truth to the power of those men. But their time is up.”

The Rape of Recy Taylor will be available to view in selected UK cinemas from the 25 May.

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