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Jesse Ames is known for Moist Fury (2010), Return to Blood Fart Lake (2011) and Beyond McNasty: Filthy McNasty 4 (2010). IMDbPro Starmeter See rank Add photos, demo reels Add to list
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Jessie Daniel Ames (November 2, 1883 – February 21, 1972) was a suffragist and civil rights leader from Texas who helped create the anti-lynching movement in the American South. She was one of the first Southern white women to speak out and work publicly against lynching of African Americans, murders which white men claimed to commit in an effort to protect women's "virtue."
Jesse Daniel Ames Anti-Lynching Advocate 1883 – 1972 A.D. By Anne Adams. There is a stereotype of the “Southern Belle” being a helpless young woman, yet southerner Jessie Daniel Ames was certainly not helpless but a feisty crusader against the tragedy of lynching.
Jessie Daniel Ames (born November 2, 1883, Palestine, Texas, U.S.—died February 21, 1972, Austin, Texas) was an American suffragist and civil rights activist who worked successfully to combat lynching in the southern United States.
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Jesse James. Jesse Woodson James (September 5, 1847 – April 3, 1882) was an American outlaw, bank and train robber, guerrilla and leader of the James–Younger Gang. Raised in the "Little Dixie" area of Missouri, James and his family maintained strong Southern sympathies. He and his brother Frank James joined pro- Confederate guerrillas known ...
Jessie Daniel Ames was a prominent women’s and civil rights leader who moved to Georgetown from Palestine, Texas, and graduated from Southwestern University in 1902. After graduating, she moved to Laredo and married Roger Post Ames. When he died in 1914, she and her children moved back to Georgetown where she bought the house that is historically recognized as hers today. Her work with the ...
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Ames died in Austin, Texas at age of 88 in 1972. Jessie Daniel Ames devoted 30 years of her life to the public as a crusader for racial and sexual liberty and equality in a time when neither topic was accepted by the society in which she lived. Her pioneering efforts helped lay the groundwork for the flowering of black rights and women’s ...
