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Southern Women and Lynching
Jessie Daniel Ames began her career in the suffrage and women’s rights movements in Texas. She was the treasurer of the Texas Equal Suffrage Association when Texas became the first southern state to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment. She became disillusioned by the suffrage movement’s exclusion of black women. In 1922 Ames became director of women’s work for the Commission on Interracial Cooperation in Atlanta. In 1930 Ames founded the Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching, organizing against lynching in Texas, Arkansas, and Oklahoma and thoroughly repudiating the idea that lynching was a defense of southern white girls. -
The reason why the colored American is not in the world's Columbian exposition: the Afro-American's contribution to Columbian literature
Journalist, editor, and co-owner of the Memphis Free Speech and Headlight newspaper, Ida B. Wells was a singularly influential African American woman. Her incendiary articles denouncing racism were reprinted in more than two hundred black weeklies. She led an international campaign against lynching, using documentation and photographs that confronted her readers with lynching’s stark horrific reality. In 1913, she founded Chicago’s Alpha Suffrage Club, the first suffrage organization for black women. This pamphlet, published by Wells, protests the exclusion of African Americans from the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago and urges a boycott of the Fair’s “Colored People’s Day.” Frederick Douglass contributed the introduction.
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