For the purity of white womanhood

It often strikes me the lengths terrorists go to justify their terrorism of a another group – here I address the Ku Klux Klan who claimed the role of staunch defenders of white purity and white womanhood to justify their public and private violence upon newly freed blacks of the reconstruction era. It is even more striking to learn the lengths other minority groups take in supporting the suppression others’ freedom as a way of assuring or furthering their own. Here I address The Woman Christian Temperance Union (1874) and the controversy surrounding its second national president, Frances Willard.