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I do not think that these women necessarily hated the races that the KKK targeted or necessarily wished them harm, but they probably felt threatened by the large waves of immigrants coming in to America in the early twentieth century. These immigrants were coming in to America in large numbers and practically taking over the job market. And like we learned in class, these women were most likely afraid of both their shrinking family size and the white race. Of course, the race was not dying out, but it certainly seemed like it with all of the other races that either continued to have many children and or just seemed to be everywhere. In reality, I believe that the KKK offered white women a place to come together and feel like a unified race in an America that was suddenly becoming filled with so many different races. -- CBrau | I do not think that these women necessarily hated the races that the KKK targeted or necessarily wished them harm, but they probably felt threatened by the large waves of immigrants coming in to America in the early twentieth century. These immigrants were coming in to America in large numbers and practically taking over the job market. And like we learned in class, these women were most likely afraid of both their shrinking family size and the white race. Of course, the race was not dying out, but it certainly seemed like it with all of the other races that either continued to have many children and or just seemed to be everywhere. In reality, I believe that the KKK offered white women a place to come together and feel like a unified race in an America that was suddenly becoming filled with so many different races. -- CBrau | ||
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| + | The women of the Ku Klux Klan article, containing the original “kreed” revised and the constitution and laws of the women of the Ku Klux Klan (incorporated) was written for a fairly targeted group of individuals. They sought to influence the opinion of persons of white, gentile (Protestants) and native (to the US) born heritage. The goal was to create a unified agenda, or at least a common set of goals and laws, that all members adhered to upon joining. Most likely the women who would read this pamphlet would be wives or sisters of members of the male branch of the Ku Klux Klan, mainly because they were already indoctrinated into that manner of thinking (that white native born individuals held a higher weight in society and had more of a right to be part of American society than others.) This came at a time when immigration was high, and many of the immigrants were second wave immigrants meaning that they consisted of eastern Europeans, (such as Italians and Jews) who would look differently than the previously white, Anglican looking influx of Irish, Germans and Scandinavian people. For people who harbor racist or nativist feelings, this was a time period that would cause a lot of resentment and frustration to occur making clubs like the WKKK more “popular” than it perhaps would have been at any other time in American History. --jmarshal | ||
