As an interesting bit, from another angle of society, I came across this incredible information while loking at old newspaper microfilms, today:

1937
Atlanta (AP) -- Mrs. Jessie Daniel Ames said today white women of the south are rapidly forming opposition to "the use of their skirts as blinds for negro lynchings."

She said substantiation of her statement was gathered here this week at the first biennial session of the Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching. Mrs. Ames is director of the association.

"Economic greed is the cause of more lynchings than the protection of the white woman's honor," Mrs. Ames declared.

She said 35,000 women in 13 southern states have signed pledges to fight lynching.

"For years crimes have been committed in the south in the name of women without cause," Mrs. Ames said. "White women of the south now are realizing this is a travesty of justice and a slur on their honor."

She said the days when "southern chivalry" can be used as the legal excuse for "summarily putting to death a negro that some person or group does not like" are numbered.

"The hush-hush system is outmoded," said Mrs. Ames. "We are letting white women know the truth about so-called attacks by negroes, since most of them are fictional."

The association does not favor anti-lynching legislation, Mrs. Ames said, because the organization is non-political. The association seeks merely to destroy "the fiction about the necessity for lynching."

Mrs. Ames came to Georgia seven years ago from her native Texas. She began the association for the prevention of lynching the following year. She is small of stature with greyish hair, is a widow and mother of three children.