African Americana

15 1/4 x 25 7/8 in. (visible) (tears throughout, toned); matted and framed (not examined out of frame). 

A broadside featuring a bar graph showing the apparent decline of lynchings from 1882 to 1936. Despite the presentation of data in this graph, there had been a large increase in lynchings around 1930, prompting the formation of the Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching (ASWPL). Dedicated to preventing and lobbying against the lynching of African Americans, the organization was composed exclusively of white, mostly upper-class women as they "believed that only white women could influence other white women." Under this philosophy, they employed the "moral and social leverage of women in their local communities to create a new climate of opinion."