How Did Black Women in the NAACP
Promote the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill, 1918-1923?

Selected Bibliography

Brown, Mary Jane. "Advocates in the Age of Jazz: Women and the Campaign for the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill," Peace & Change, 28 (July 2003): 378-419.

________.  Eradicating this Evil:  Women in the American Anti-Lynching Movement, 1892-1940.  New York: Garland Publishing, 2000.

Feimester, Crystal Nicole. "'Ladies and Lynching': The Gendered Discourse of Mob Violence in the New South, 1880-1930." PhD Dissertation, Princeton Unviversity, Princeton, New Jersey, 2000.

Grant, Donald L.  The Anti-Lynching Movement: 1883-1932. San Francisco: R and E Research Associates, 1975.

Hall, Jacquelyn Dowd.  Revolt Against Chivalry: Jessie Daniel Ames and the Women's Campaign Against Lynching. New York: Columbia University Press, 1979.

Johnson, James Weldon. "Address of James Weldon Johnson at the Annual Meeting of the N.A.A.C.P., January 3, 1923." NAACP Papers, Part 7: The Anti-Lynching Campaign, 1912-1955, Series B: Anti-Lynching Legislative and Publicity Files, 1916-1955, Library of Congress (Microfilm, Part 1, Reel 13, Document 394).

Lerner, Gerda, ed. Black Women in White America: A Documentary History. New York: Vintage Books, 1972 (reprint 1973).

Senate Reports, 67th Congress, 2nd Session, 1921-1922. Volume 2.

Sicherman, Barbara, et al., eds. Notable American Women, The Modern Period: A Biographical Dictionary. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1980.

Zangrando, Robert L.  The NAACP Crusade Against Lynching, 1909-1950.  Philadelphia:  Temple University Press, 1980.


 
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