The Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching (ASWPL) was a women's organization founded by Jessie Daniel Ames in Atlanta, Georgia in November 1930, to lobby and campaign against the lynching of African Americans. The group was made up of middle and upper-class white women. While active, the group had "a presence in every county in the South" of the United States. It was loosely organized and only accepted white women as members because they "believed that only white women could influence other white women." Many of the women involved were also members of missionary societies. Along with the Commission on Interracial Cooperation (CIC), the ASWPL had an important effect on popular opinion among whites relating to lynching. (From Wikipedia)
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Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching, contrib.: The Changing Character of Lynching: Review of Lynching, 1931-1941, With a Discussion of Recent Developments in This Field (Atlanta: Commission on Interracial Cooperation, 1942), by Jessie Daniel Ames (multiple formats at archive.org)- Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching: "Feeling is Tense": 1937 Lynchings 8, Prevented Lynchings, 56 (Bulletin #8; 1938) (multiple formats at archive.org)
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Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching: "With quietness they work." Report of the activities of Southern women in education against lynching during 1937. ([The Association], 1938) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
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