Mar 10, 2011 - Sale 2239

Sale 2239 - Lot 239

Price Realized: $ 1,920
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
AN IMPORTANT GROUP OF WHITE SOUTHERN ACTIVIST WOMEN ACT AGAINST LYNCHING (CIVIL RIGHTS--LYNCHING.) ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHERN WOMEN FOR THE PREVENTION OF LYNCHING Southern Women Look at Lynching. 29 pages. 8vo, original printed red wrappers. Atlanta, 1937

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"The work began in Georgia at a luncheon meeting in January, 1931. A group of Georgian women humiliated by the knowledge that their state led all the rest in the number of lynchings for the preceding year call upon Southern women to join with them in setting up state councils to educate against lynching in the name of women." (From page 5). Jessie Daniel Ames was the activist behind the formation of the Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching (ASWPL). Ames was involved in a number of different organizations, including the Texas League of Women Voters, of which she was founding president in 1919.