298: Rallying Behind Racism: The Women of White Supremacy

White supremacy has been in the news a lot recently. It is often
seen as a movement at the fringes of American society, and
discussion of it rarely includes white women. But women play a
critical, if overlooked, role in the white supremacy movement,
and examining their involvement shows it to be far less fringe
than many think. So on this episode of BackStory, Brian, Nathan
and Joanne dig into the little known history of white women and
white supremacy.

Image: Attention has been focused on the almost mythical Ku Klux
Klan organization in the United States, following the allegations
that Senator Black, the new Supreme Court judge, was a member of
the sect. Virtually unknown, even in the U.S., a women’s branch
of the Ku Klux Klan has grown into a powerful organization in the
south. The women’s Klan salute to the cross at Atlanta, Georgia,
on Aug. 18, 1937. Source: AP Images

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