How did female members of the Ku Klux Klan think about gender in the United States?
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https://doi.org/10.61173/gvcj4s85Keywords:
equality, women, rights, genderAbstract
This paper focuses on the members’ perspective toward gender issues inside the Women’s KKK party, mainly about their attitude toward gender equality. This paper will analyze two secondary and two primary sources to join the debate of whether women in the KKK want to be empowered or stay traditional. The analysis of the primary sources interrupts this debate by stating women in the KKK believe there is no distinction between the two sexes. The idea of doing this specific research is to show that women are fighting for equality and rights in different kinds of conditions, including in extremist groups.
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[6] Women of the Ku Klux Klan, “America for Americans as Interpreted by the Women of the Ku Klux Klan, Creed of Klanswomen, Yesterday -- Today and Forever, God and Government, Law and Liberty, Peace and Prosperity” (2019), likely written in the 1920s. Women of the Ku Klux Klan Collection. 21. https://egrove.olemiss.edu/womenkkk/21?utm_ source=egrove.olemiss.edu%2Fwomenkkk%2F21&utm_ medium=PDF&utm_campaign=PDFCoverPages
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