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Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching (ASWPL)

A grassroots organization led by Jesse Daniel Ames that mobilized four million white Southern women by the early 1940s to oppose lynching, dismantling the myth of 'Southern chivalry' by rejecting the racist justification that lynchings were responses to the rape of white women.

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