See also: Women of the Far Right.

Books

Kathleen M. Blee: Women of the Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920s.

Rebecca Brückmann: Massive Resistance and Southern Womanhood: White Women, Class, and Segregation.

Elizabeth Gillespie McRae: Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy.

Articles

Kathleen Blee:

• Do White Supremacist Women Adopt Movement Archetypes of Mother, Whore, and Fighter?
• First came suffrage. Then came the Women of the Ku Klux Klan.

Emily Cataneo: A Brief History of the Women’s KKK: The Women’s KKK, an affiliated-but-separate racist organization for white Protestant women, courted members through an insincere “empowerment feminism.”

Linda Gordon:

• Why women have always been essential to white supremacist movements.
• KKK Feminism. (Video lecture.)

Nicole Hemmer: The women fighting for white male supremacy.

Elizabeth Gillespie McRae:

• The Women Behind White Power.
• When White Segregationist Women Hated on Eleanor Roosevelt. They rarely if ever marched or overtly protested, but Southern white women were nevertheless the mass in Massive Resistance. For them, Mrs. Roosevelt was public enemy number one.
• White women overwhelmingly supported Roy Moore. We shouldn’t be surprised. For centuries, white women have supported conservative and white supremacist candidates.

Ben Railton: The Role of Women in the Lynching Epidemic: While histories of lynching often focus on the male perpetrators and victims, women have also played roles both destructive and inspiring.

Rebecca Stoner: ‘Segregation’s Constant Gardeners’: How White Women Kept Jim Crow Alive. Elizabeth McRae’s recent book introduces us to good white mothers, PTA members, and newspaper columnists who were also committed white supremacists.