After Deputy Sheriff Lewey Corbitt ended their secret meeting, Parks recorded Taylor's notes of the assault and brought them to African-American activists in Montgomery.
[7] Drawing on years of activism in which she defended the Scottsboro Boys, fought against the Ku Klux Klan, and joined the NAACP, Rosa Parks allied with the Southern Negro Youth Congress to publicize Taylor's case.
[9] In her role as secretary of the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP, Rosa Parks traveled throughout Alabama collecting testimonies and documenting racially motivated crimes, such as police brutality, unsolved murders, voter intimidation, and rape.
DuBois, Mary Church Terrell, Charlotte Hawkins Brown, Ira De A. Reid, John Sengstacke, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, Lillian Smith, Oscar Hammerstein II, and Henrietta Buckmaster.
[12] This campaign targeted Alabama Governor Chauncey Sparks, who previously supported laws that hindered Blacks’ from registering to vote.
[13] After a considerable amount of public pressure, Governor Sparks reluctantly agreed to launch a special grand jury investigation.
[17] Although there were no indictments in Recy Taylor's case, the Committee for Equal Justice's nonviolent activism created a foundation for the formal civil rights movement.
Sikivu Hutchinson, author of “White Nights, Black Paradise” assessed the significance of the Committee for Equal Justice and Recy Taylor by saying, “Her case became a major catalyst for black women’s civil rights resistance and the intersectional connection between sexual violence and state violence.”[18] Feminist scholars assert that this case illuminates the important roles African American women played during the civil rights movement, which is often eclipsed in history books by the contributions of male figures such as Rev.
The Committee for Equal Justice successfully brought national attention to sexual assault of black women that was widespread in the South.