White, native-born, Protestant women over age 18 were allowed to join the Klan. Particularly prominent in the 1920s, the WKKK existed in every state, but their strongest chapters were in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Arkansas.
The women of the WKKK fought for educational and social reforms like other Progressive reformers but with extreme racism and intolerance. While most women focused on the moral, civic, and educational agendas of the Klan, they also had considerable involvement in issues of race, class, ethnicity, gender, and religion. Women of the Ku Klux Klan ( WKKK), also known as Women's Ku Klux Klan, and Ladies of the Invisible Empire, held to many of the same political and social ideas of the KKK but functioned as a separate branch of the national organization with their own actions and ideas.
Jane Snyder attending KKK event, 8 September 1925
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