Klu Klux Klan Summary

The progressive era in the Unites states lends itself well to the study of women interactions to politics considered alongside the rise of radical right-wing organizations. The most promote organization was the Klu Klux Klan and the new formed women's branch. I started research on this topic by reviewing reference works, then refining the topic's broader idea through articles and books. The research allows for the understanding of the topic to create a question about woman's interactions to politics through the right-wing ideology of the Klan.

The scholarship written for the subject about women in the Klan is limited. From different attempts of searching through the databases yielded a similar collection of articles and other articles that

do not directly pertain to the topic I am researching. These searches, also, yielded articles that did not aid in my understanding of the topic. The articles I settled on helped bring understanding to my topic by creating a collection of works that help me to formulate a question about women of the Klan.
The articles and reference work lean towards general information about the Klan and a little about women, but the work help for contextualization. The reference works help to gain an understanding of the topic being researched. Each group of writing reveals a fundamental change in the Klan, through female involvement and geographical location: Midwest and Western states, not solely the Southern United States.
However, Kathrine Blee book focuses solely on women of the Klan.

In Blee's writing, reveals that there was a divide between women and men within the Klan, specifically on symbols. Importantly, the symbol of womanhood. For the men, it was the correctness of white supremacy while for women it represented the inequalities in society and politics.

In reading the first chapter and previewing the rest of the book Blee helps to reveal a fuller story of women in the Klan. It helps me to understand the political involvement these women held through the Klan. Blee has written on the women in the Klan in journals and a book. It was hard to find another original scholarship other than Blee's writing. It creates limited research for me to rely on a single scholar.

The most helpful article focused on the political life of Daisy Barr. The article discussed the political story of Barr's life. She made a name for herself while working with the temperance movement and female prostitution.

Interestingly, this reveals for my understanding the connection between women transition into the Klan from other political organizations and activism. Until reading this article I did not know the connection between temperance movement and the Klan. This article was very important to my understanding of what drove women towards the Klan. The single case study of women brought me towards my question for further research than any of the articles I read for my

research.
This group of sources leads itself to an understanding of Klan and women's involvement in the organization during 1920's. These articles help with the formation of a question the would allow for further research on the topic of women in the Klan. The question forming is how did change socially politically thought effect these women to join the Klan, and why specifically in this second phase of the Klan cause the high level of female involvement. To approach the next phase of research through researching of women of the Klan and attempting to find primary sources that would lead to and understanding of these women thoughts. As well as finding paper collocation of male members writing to understand the reason why men could have facilitated the involvement of women.