Los Angeles County’s South Bay, which includes El Segundo, was a hotbed for the Ku Klux Klan a century ago. In 1922, an estimated 12,000 people — including an El Segundo contingent — attended a Klan rally in Whittier Hills. The treatment tanks at the Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant in Playa del Rey are within sniffing distance of El Segundo. One of Mark Knight’s photos from the Black Lives Matter protests in El Segundo in 2020. By the fifth El Segundo for Black Lives protest last summer, things grew tense.

Source: Los Angeles Times July 06, 2021 12:00 UTC