Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching
Women's civil rights organization in the United States / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.[1] 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.[2] It was loosely organized and only accepted white women as members because they "believed that only white women could influence other white women."[1] Many of the women involved were also members of missionary societies.[3] Along with the Commission on Interracial Cooperation (CIC), the ASWPL had an important effect on popular opinion among whites relating to lynching.[4][5]