Southern Women and Lynching

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.

Ames, Jessie Daniel

Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching

1936

Atlanta

1936

Jessie Daniel Ames — suffragist and anti-lynching activist

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1900s