Westminster to feature speaker on racist women

NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. — Dr. Kathleen Blee, distinguished professor of sociology, women’s studies and history at the University of Pittsburgh, will speak on “The Women inside Organized Racism” at 4:15 p.m. Thursday in the Berlin Student Lounge of the McKelvey Campus Center at Westminster College. The presentation is free and open to the public.

Blee has written and edited numerous books, including Inside Organized Racism: Women in the Hate Movement and Women of the Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920s andhas spoken extensively on national, international and local television and radio programs on the topics of David Duke, the Ku Klux Klan, hate crimes and violence and organized racism.