Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World Highlight

But the authorities played for only one team, and both the sheriff and the district attorney in the Fresno heart of raisin country openly supported the association. A Department of Justice investigator found ample evidence of what one independent grower described as a “reign of terror” by the “Raisin Ku Klux Klan,” but Sun-Maid was too big to fail.