Title: Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching papers, 1930-1942
Description: "This small group of women, founded by Jessie Daniel Ames, formed as a special offshoot of the Commission on Interracial Cooperation (CIC); it merged back into the CIC in 1942.  These papers include correspondence, reports, clippings, pamphlets, legislative materials, meeting minutes, petitions, questionnaires, speeches, and press-releases.  The collection documents an attempt to mobilize local, regional, and federal public support for the goal of eradicating violent attacks and hangings by whites of blacks in the American south.  NOTE: See also 'Commission on Interracial Cooperation papers, 1919-1944' (Microfilm 88/329.  LCCN: 88-890640)"--The Library of Congress Guide to the Microform Collections in the Humanities and Social Sciences Division, online version.