KNIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN: WOMEN OF THE KU KLUX KLAN

ESSENTIAL QUESTION:  WHY DO HISTORIANS AND MEDIA CONTINUE TO ECLIPSE THE INFLUENCE OF THE WHITE SUPREMACIST WOMAN?

OBJECTIVES: SWBAT analyze, evaluate, source and annotate excerpted primary and secondary sources (complex text, images, video, articles) toward skill building for the AP US Government and Politics exam.

CITATIONS:

BOOK/BOOK IMAGE/PPTS/HANDOUT:

Knights in White Satin:  Women of the Ku Klux Klan

January 1, 2007 (Pgs. Introduction, 85-89)

Marshall Digital Scholar – Kelli R. Kerbawy

https://mds.marshall.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1689&context=etd

ONLINE ARTICLE:

The Untold Privilege of White Women:  Unmasking A Secret Army of Karen’s in American History

The Milwaukee Independent – February 2021

https://www.milwaukeeindependent.com/featured/untold-privilege-white-women-unmasking-secret-army-karens-american-history/

WORKING REFERENCES:

Massive Resistance and Southern Womanhood

https://ugapress.org/book/9780820358628/massive-resistance-and-southern-womanhood/

Mothers of Massive Resistance:  White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy

https://www.goodreads.com/book/shw/35013165-mothers-of-massive-resistance

When Women are the Enemy:  The Intersection of Misogyny and White Supremacy

https://www.adl.org/resources/reports/when-women-are-the-enemy-the-intersection-of-misogny-and-white-supremacy

Southern History Across The Color Line

Nell Irvin Painter

https://flexpub.com/preview/southern-history-across-the-color-line-second-edition

AP STANDARDS:

https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/courses/ap-united-states-government-and-politics/courses