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Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching

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On that day in November, about twelve women signed a public statement against lynching. Over time, the same statement would have more than 40,000 signatures from Southern women. A core group was formed with twelve women agreeing to hold local meetings against lynching in their home states. Women from
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In addition to speaking with law enforcement, the women of ASWPL talked to church groups all over the South about lynchings. They also created a network of women who were able to find out about lynchings before they happened and report the possible attacks to law enforcement, or even, in some cases,
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The ASWPL members spoke to men involved in law enforcement in their own communities and asked them to protect African Americans from being lynched. One leader in the ASWPL recalled that, "We were determined not be just another body of resolution-passer. So we went to work where it meant the most: on
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The ASWPL used the "moral and social leverage of women in their local communities to create a 'new climate of opinion,'" and accomplished this by networking with these women in order to grow the movement. They also educated Southern women about the myth of lynching, which held that lynchings only
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pointed out that the alleged rapes of white women by black men, "the supposed rationale for a lynching, seldom occurred and that the true motive for lynching was in racial hatred." In addition, Ames felt that white women were exploited in this narrative "in order to obscure the economic greed and
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Nine-tenths of all lynchings during the 1890s to the 1940s in the United States occurred in the South. Lynching had been declining, but in 1930, there was a sudden rise in lynchings. In 1930, there were 21 reported lynchings, and 20 of the victims were African Americans. On November 1, 1930,
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Ames established her own state-level ASWPL chapter in Georgia in January 1931. By April, there were groups formed in all the southern states, except Florida, who created an organization later. In 1934, there was an annual meeting where the ASWPL adopted a formal resolution which
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occurred as "retribution for an attack on a white woman, especially rape." The ASWPL provided facts and figures to back up their claims. Their own position as a "cultural symbol of the southern lady" gave them added "authority" to destroy the myths.
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By the early 1940s, there were 109 affiliated associations, with a combined membership of 4 million. Funding for the ASWPL came from the CIC. In May 1940, the ASWPL celebrated 12 months without a lynching. The year before, there had been only three.
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advocate and felt that anti-lynching efforts were better handled at the state level. Instead of the bill, they urged support of continued education, cooperation of both law enforcement and media to prevent lynchings and increased membership.
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The ASWPL also demanded "thorough investigation" of any mob killings of African Americans. The investigations marked a change because before the ASWPL was watching, "lynchings were 'hushed up' and therefore soon forgotten."
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the county sheriffs." In 1934, Sallie L. Hanna, who led the ASWPL in Texas, "secured the pledges of seven gubernatorial candidates to use the power of the governor's office to end lynching." The winner,
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twenty-six "prominent Southern women" assembled in Atlanta in order to discuss the problems of the increase in lynchings, causes, and possible ways women could help eradicate the problem.
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The changing character of lynching : review of lynching, 1931-1941, with a discussion of recent developments in this field
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One of the many excuses used to conduct lynchings was that it was done in the name of "protecting" white women. ASWPL founder
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In 1942, judging that the purposes of the ASWPL had been achieved, Ames wound the association up.
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a few days later in a "conference similar to that held in Atlanta." The group's declaration was:
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From Slave Abuse to Hate Crime: The Criminalization of Racial Violence in American History
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In 1940 members of the ASWPL opposed an anti-lynching bill that was up for review at
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Atlanta, Ga.: Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching, 1938
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Daughters of the Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World
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In her writing and speaking for the group, Ames used language taken from
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in November 1930, to lobby and campaign against the
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Jessie Daniel Ames
Atlanta, Georgia
lynching
African Americans
United States
missionary
Commission on Interracial Cooperation
Jessie Daniel Ames
evangelical
secular
League of Women Voters
Texas
Louisiana
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Dallas
Congress
state's rights
Jacquelyn Dowd Hall
Southern Oral History Program
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
James V. Allred






ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHERN WOMEN FOR THE PREVENTION OF LYNCHING
"A Man Was Lynched Yesterday"

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