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Bishop Alma Bridwell: The Most Prominent Women In The 1920s

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One of the most prominent women in the 1920s was Bishop Alma Bridwell. She was a proponent of both the KKK and the women's rights movement. From the time she was born, she was a disappointment to her poor family because she was not a boy.1 This rejection caused Bridwell to turn to religion and strive to become a preacher. However, women were not accepted as preachers at this time, so she did the next best thing. She married one. At her husband's church, she began preaching, and it was quickly recognized that she had talent for speaking. Bridwell soon began holding revivals throughout the West, where she spoke out against traditional Protestantism and “declared war on immoral modernism.”2 She supported the temperance movement and blamed Catholics
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