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Week Three Discussion SubscribeChoose one of the following and write a comprehensive discussion post of 250 to 500 words. In addition to the assigned readings from the Course Modules and U.S. History, I have included some other resources that you should find helpful – these can be found in the Discussion Topic Week 3: Overview.Your discussion is due by Thursday of Week 3 – use the “Create a Thread” option, Comments are due by Sunday use the “Reply” option. Note for the comments – make sure that you comment on topics other than the one you wrote your essay on. 1. Why did so many women join the KKK in the early 1920's? What were some of the motivating factors? What does this tell us about political motivations for women versus men? DiscussionFilter by:All ThreadsSort by:Week 3Contains unread postsKejon James posted Jan 31, 2019 8:09 PM SubscribeTo stand against racial equality, immigration, Jewish owned businesses, parochial school, and moral decay. Tons and tons of women joined the Ku Klux Klan from 1923 to 1930. Known as the Women of the Ku Klux Klan, they had many motivating factors into joining. Not only to promote race base agendas but also to further promote women's rights. To differ from their male counterpart's, many women were passive with their agendas. Believing that this approach would prevent violence from being passed along to the children. In doing so they preserved their original goal of protecting the women and children.WOMEN IN THE 1920S' KU KLUX KLAN MOVEMENT (week 3 reading).4Unread4Replies9ViewsView profile card for Kejon JamesLast post February 7 at 8:31 PM by Kejon Jamesweek 3Zakaria Aging posted Jan 24, 2019 6:51 AMSubscribedWhy did so many women join the KKK in the early 1920's? What were some of the motivating factors? What does this tell us about political motivations for women versus men? It is explicit that few cohorts of studies come across the initial declarations made in line with the Ku Klux Klan of the women. As a matter of fact, the majority of the Americans were obvious that when the KKK was revived in the 1920s, the women had played a vital role in the movement and they also initiated their own movement of the Invisible Empire. According to the evidence that is present, it is worthwhile mentioning that the objectives of the Women’s Klan was almost the same as that of the main Klan but the branch of the women, on the contrary, had a diverse variety of norms, values and beliefs (Lay, 2004). The impetus of this paper is to demystify the reason why so many women joined the KKK and the underlying motivation factor that orchestrated the joining of the movement.Progressivism that happened in the early 20th century entailed a wide range of beliefs, values, norms, ideas, reforms and interests; nonetheless, the institutions and persons in the movement noted that there was dire need to intervene in an industrial community that was perceived to be corrupted so as to keep particular cultural values (Lay, 2004). The majority of the reformers, despite known as “progressive” supported conservative Victorian concepts. It is worthwhile mentioning that the purity of the women is one of the primary reason that compelled the majority of the women to join the KKK and the value that the Progressive leaders did seek to protect.The motivating factor to join the movement is attributed to the fact that women were perceived as moral guardians. The Invisible Empire that was created by the women did redefine its central widening the need to protect the purity of the white women to save the various values that were possessed by the Anglo-Saxon, which was a Protestant race (Mirzoeff, 2006). It was also geared towards the process of protecting the susceptible white females especially from any form of corruption that required to be subjected to reinterpretation in the light of the suffrage of the women. In this sense, it is visible that women were more politically motivated as compared to the men because they had to endorse the moral guardianship and also motherhood after they were accorded the permit to develop their own separate division.ReferencesLay, S. (Ed.). (2004). The invisible empire in the west: Toward a new historical appraisal of the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s. University of Illinois Press.Mirzoeff, N. (2006). Invisible empire: Visual culture, embodied spectacle, and Abu Ghraib. Radical History Review, 95, 21.0Unread5Replies12ViewsView profile card for Michelle MurphyLast post February 4 at 3:49 PM by Michelle MurphyDiscussion 3 - Kassie ArrudaContains unread postsKassie Moniz-Arruda posted Jan 31, 2019 6:36 PM SubscribeThere are many reasons why so many women joined the KKK in the early 1920s and most of them are reasons we have discussed in previous weeks. Women wanted to continue to have the family life and joining the KKK allowed them to feel this way. The Klan was presented as a group that continued traditional family life, and day to day values. Some women joined the KKK because they were wives, sisters and daughters of Klansmen. They believed that if they joined a very similar organization, they would be able to promote family life and togetherness. However, there were many women who were not married and didn’t have any ties to the KKK that still joined. Like many groups and organizations that were created in history, the KKK brought together women for social involvement. This meant that women would have a group they could rely on and have people “have their backs.” The Klan proved its ability to protect women against sexual harassment and abuse from their husbands. “Recruitment literature from the WKKK played on the same racist and nativist themes as the male KKK, promising to safe-guard the American family from ‘corrupting’ influences; to guard against isolation and loneliness; to provide excitement; to preserve nationalistic pride; and to maintain racial, religious, and ethnic superiority” (Blee., 1991). This proves that both the men and the women didn’t want change in their day to day lives. It meant that they joined because they were believed to keep their lifestyle and beliefs the same without anyone being able to tell them they are changing them. They wanted their lives to stay the same. The Klanswomen were not terroristic like the Klansmen were, their man focus was the protection of women and children. They wanted children to be safe and wanted women to be able to have their rights and act upon them as well as have their political roles. ReferencesBlee M., Kathleen. (1991). Women in the 1920s’ Ku Klux Klan Movement. Retrieved from https://www-jstor-org.ezproxy.umuc.edu/stable/pdf/3178170.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3Acc9f9e8a2c367a727f31a84b94595c2f5Unread5Replies6ViewsView profile card for Mason LynnLast post February 3 at 10:04 PM by Mason LynnDiscussion 3Contains unread postsDonna Warner posted Jan 24, 2019 10:43 AM Subscribe Women joined the KKK in the early 1920s as a show of power. They saw the KKK as a conduit to social reform. A half million women joined with the belief they would be upholding “the American way.” The KKK was effective and responsible for some of its most vicious and destructive results. The women were, also, better at public relations. They were better than the men at hiding their supremacist mission behind social welfare. A lot of the women saw it as a social event. The KKK lobbied for national quotas for immigration, racial segregation, and laws prohibiting interracial marriage. The women finally felt like a part of male-dominated society and wanted to “stand alongside our men and help with protecting [instead of being] patted on the head and told not to worry.” 1 By the end of the decade, the KKK had become weaker but the women engaged in civic activities like PTAs, schools boards, and national and local politics. The “political lesson of the Klan is how easy racism and intolerance appealed to ordinary people in ordinary places.”2 The women saw the KKK as an organization that helped to preserve the way of American life. Through the KKK, the women pushed for better education, better working conditions, shorter work weeks, and no child labor. The women, also, saw the KKK as a social organization where the women could get together and do things together. The women were more involved in politics. They had fought for the right to vote for so long that when they were granted the right, they used it. The women were more actively involved in politics than men. The suffrage women experienced an easy transition to political movements. They joined the WKKK to oppose immigration, racial equality, Jewish-owned businesses, Catholic schools, and moral decay.3 The women used “the KKK’s call for supremacy of white, native born Protestants and interpreted it in a gender-specific way, as a vehicle to protect women and children, to preserve home and family life, and to demonstrate newly won rights.”4 There seems to be little history on women’s involvement in movements of political protest. The WKKK had a complex ideology. In addition to their struggles against immigrants, blacks, Jews, Catholics, etc., they had a belief in gender equality. They were motivated by the “complex mixture of defending and resenting male privilege and female vulnerability in the economic and social spheres.”5 The men’s motivation reflects simple self-interest. Blee, in her work Women in the 1920’s Ku Klux Klan Movement, says there is not much history on the women’s Klan activity because they “typically dismiss women’s Klan activities as incidental, auxiliary, or merely cultural screens behind which men carried out the real politics of the Klan.” 1 Laura Smith. The KKK started a branch just for women in the 1920s and half a million joined. The platform mingled racism, nativism, and feminism? Timeline. https://timeline.com/the-kkk-72ab1439678b.2 Ibid.3 Kathleen M. Blee. Women in the 1920’s Ku Klux Klan Movement. Feminist Studies. 17(1).0046663.4 Ibid.5 Ibid.6Unread7Replies10ViewsView profile card for Kassie Moniz-ArrudaLast post February 3 at 4:48 PM by Kassie Moniz-ArrudaWKKK why did women feel it was necessary to Join this infamous Organization.Contains unread postsMason Lynn posted Jan 31, 2019 2:58 PM SubscribeWhy did so many women join the KKK in the early 1920's? What were some of the motivating factors? What does this tell us about political motivations for women versus men? Women in the early 1920’s had many political and social motivations that cause them to create or join numerous foundations. One of those foundations was the Klu Klux Klan. The major drives initially in most cases was to preserve the aspects that these women held the dearest to their hearts. That of God, Country and family life. A lot of men joined the “Cause” to have a cause or because they were angry at something or someone and needed an avenue to vent that anger. This is one of the major reasons that so many acts of terrorism and violence were prevalent in the Male half of the KKK. Most women however were passive in their political agendas and did not want to create a major pattern of violence for their children to grown up in and inherit. That does not mean that there weren’t instances where violent acts that did occur but nowhere near as many that were caused by the male half of the Klan. The agendas that motivated women to join were that of political and legislative in nature. Women of America were more interested in causing change in their country than enacting violence on the non-white populace. That does not mean they were not prejudice against their non-white counterparts but it was not the driving factor in their push to become a legitimate association or organization. Women saw the Klan as a venue to drive their legislative and political views into the spotlight, and because of the nature of the Klan, their views were definitely more likely to be seen and heard. Not all women were recruited from outside the Klan some were closely related to male Klan Members, and not all women were the ones being recruited. Often times they would recruit their husbands into the Klan because of their belief system. Kathleen M. Blee. Women in the 1920’s Ku Klux Klan Movement. Feminist Studies. 17(1).0046663.1Unread1Replies7ViewsView profile card for Kassie Moniz-ArrudaLast post February 3 at 4:37 PM by Kassie Moniz-ArrudaWeek 3 Discussion - Women in the KKKContains unread postsAmy Morrison posted Jan 30, 2019 12:34 AMLast edited: Wednesday, January 30, 2019 2:11 PM EST SubscribeThe large influx into the women’s branch of the KKK, known as the WKKK, in the early 1920’s, mirrored the increase in membership overall in the KKK, which was driven by a series of cultural factors of the time: increasingly openly racist attitudes against blacks who had relocated northward after the Civil War, nationalism encouraged by World War I, and prejudice on the part of political and religious fundamentalists (Blee).For both men and women, the Klan was a vehicle for expression and advancement of racist and nativist ideologies as well as a social and communal outlet. Recruitment literature from the time promised “to safeguard the American family from ‘corrupting’ influences; to guard against isolation and loneliness; to provide excitement; to preserve nationalistic pride; and to maintain racial, religious, and ethnic superiority” (Blee).However, for women in the 1920’s, there was an added dimension. They saw (and promoted to other women) involvement in the Klan as a way to both protect the institution of the family and to elevate women’s rights, a link between public and private life that had been forged in earlier political movements, for temperance and moral reform (Blee). While both men and women of the Klan were politically motivated by a desire to promote the supremacy of the white, native-born Protestant citizens and eliminate opportunity and power for anyone who didn’t fit that description, Klanswomen were uniquely focused on the protection of women and children and the advancement of the rights and political roles of women (Blee).Works CitedBlee, Kathleen M. “Women in the 1920s' Ku Klux Klan movement.” Feminist Studies. 17.1 (1991): 57-78. Academic Search Complete. Web. 29 January 2019.5Unread6Replies7Views
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