![]() ![]() ![]() Blee, a dean and sociology professor at the University of Pittsburgh who researches extremist right-wing and racist social movements, authored the book “Women of the Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920s” - published in 1991 and again in 2009, with a new preface. The WKKK formed on the heels of the women’s suffrage movement, itself rife with racism. Misogyny is the lifeblood of racist movements - or that’s one takeaway from sociologist Kathleen Blee’s research into the Women of the Ku Klux Klan (WKKK), a hate group that formed in the 1920s independent of the men’s Klan. This story was published in partnership with The 19th, a nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom reporting on gender, politics and policy. ![]()
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