Agnes Waters Explained

Agnes Waters (born Agnes Murphy Mulligan on July 1, 1893; died May 9, 1962) was a real estate person and member of the Mothers' movement who has been called "the most inflammatory lecturer on the Mothers' circuit in the 1930s and 1940s." Although she had initially deemed herself "liberal", and worked with National Woman's Party for women's suffrage, she is better known for her later strongly antisemitic and white nationalist positions.^[1] She embraced the antisemitic forgery The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and claimed mainline Christianity was "controlled by Jews and blacks."^[2] She also stated a hostility to what she termed "the invasion of the Asiatic races" and felt the Chinese should stay in China.^[3] She ran for President in 1948.^[4]

Notes and References

1. Book: Glen Jeansonne. Women of the Far Right: The Mothers' Movement and World War II. 9 June 1997. University of Chicago Press. 978-0-226-39589-0. 138–151.
2. Book: Holly J. McCammon. Lee Ann Banaszak. 100 Years of the Nineteenth Amendment: An Appraisal of Women's Political Activism. 1 February 2018. Oxford University Press. 978-0-19-026516-8. 303.
3. Book: Madeline Y. Hsu. Madeline Y. Hsu. The Good Immigrants: How the Yellow Peril Became the Model Minority. 11 April 2017. Princeton University Press. 978-0-691-17621-5. 95–96.
4. https://www.nytimes.com/1948/11/03/archives/woman-in-president-race-agnes-waters-winds-up-her-campaign-in.html WOMAN IN PRESIDENT RACE; Agnes Waters Winds Up Her Campaign in Philadelphia, The New York Times of Nov. 3, 1948