Writing Against Racism

Bass later challenged the KKK directly. In 1925, she published a letter signed by G.W. Prince, a Klan leader in California, which outlined plans to get rid of Black leaders in Los Angeles by involving them in a car accident and then framing them for driving under the influence of alcohol. Price sued Bass and The California Eagle for libel. She responded by saying, “If to jail we must go… we go with a smile… we go forward unafraid.” Bass won the case, though she continued to face harassment and physical intimidation from the KKK. Bass wrote that she "learned through this episode of Klan terror that those gentlemen who cover their heads and faces with sheets and hoods are cowards of an indiscriminate and blasphemous type.”