A Battle Transplanted Southern California's White Churches, Black Press, and the 1920's Ku Klux Klan.

The article discusses migration issues and racial tensions between African Americans and Southern whites in Los Angeles, California through an examination of the racially charged messages of the Trinity Methodist preacher Bob Shuler and the Ku Klux Klan. It is suggested that Shuler's rhetoric attracted a large number of Southern whites who saw the growing African American middle class during the 1920s as a threat to social stability. The reaction of the African American press to the situation is accessed.