JESSIE DANIEL AMES PAPERS, #3686, 1920-1963
Correspondence, speeches, reports, clippings, scrapbooks, photographs, and other materials
of Ames of Texas, Georgia, and North Carolina. Papers concern Ames's work in the Texas
Interracial Commission, the Commission on Interracial Cooperation, and the Association of
Southern Women Against Lynching. Included are case histories of individual lynchings
investigated by the ASWAL (mostly 1933); notes on the Federal
Anti-Lynching Bill (1934-1937); and letters
pertaining both to race relations (1944-1946)
and to a training school for delinquent African-American girls (1929).