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Women's political power to promote white supremacy
Winning the vote inspired women's participation in a variety of organizations across the ideological spectrum. During the 1920s, hundreds of thousands of women -- including many former suffragists -- joined the Women of the Ku Klux Klan (WKKK). Activists drew on their suffrage movement experience to promote the Klan's racist and xenophobic agenda. The women of Alliance Klan #1 sent President Coolidge this letter in 1924, encouraging him to sign a bill creating discriminatory national immigration quotas. |