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An elderly white Protestant woman from rural northern Indiana described her time in the Ku Klux Klan movement of the 1920s w remarkable nonchalance, as "just a celebration...A way of growing up" WomenOfTheKlan - #Racism & Gender in the 1920s by KathleenMBlee #BlackLivesMatter 1/ 
The Klan fit easily into her daily life, as it did for many white Protestants in Indiana. At most, it was an exceptional chapter in an otherwise ordinary life. Even in hindsight, (continuing from WomenOfTheKlan - #Racism & Gender InThe 1920s by KathleenMBlee) #BlackLivesMatter 2/
she showed little remorse over the devastation left in the wake of the Klan's crusade against Catholics, Jews, immigrants & blacks (my edit: Black people). What she remembered - with pride, not regret - was the social & cultural life of the Klan; (Continues #WomenOfTheKlan...) 3/
