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The KKK might have died in obscurity if this sinister, racist woman didn’t come along
Elizabeth Tyler realized that there are all sorts of non-whites to hate
Laura Smith
staff writer @timeline. Bylines @nyt @slate @guardian @motherjones Based in Oakland. Nonfiction book, The Art of Vanishing out from Penguin/Viking in 2018.
Dec 11, 2017
... The assailants, who were never identified, hadn’t gotten anyone. All five bullets had missed. The shooting was an attempt on the life of the most powerful woman — the most influential person, really — in the Ku Klux Klan, whose leaders had called her “a model of American womanhood.”
https://timeline.com/did-you-know-that-the-brains-behind-the-kkk-was-a-woman-a23d7d361d1d
The KKK might have died in obscurity if this sinister, racist woman didn’t come along
Elizabeth Tyler realized that there are all sorts of non-whites to hate
Laura Smith
staff writer @timeline. Bylines @nyt @slate @guardian @motherjones Based in Oakland. Nonfiction book, The Art of Vanishing out from Penguin/Viking in 2018.
Dec 11, 2017
... The assailants, who were never identified, hadn’t gotten anyone. All five bullets had missed. The shooting was an attempt on the life of the most powerful woman — the most influential person, really — in the Ku Klux Klan, whose leaders had called her “a model of American womanhood.”
https://timeline.com/did-you-know-that-the-brains-behind-the-kkk-was-a-woman-a23d7d361d1d