During the early 1920s, the national spread of the “invisible empire” of the Ku Klux Klan brought the KKK into company towns, where the Klan seemed to have focused its attentions on social irregularities associated with the quarters-domino halls, “barrel houses,” illegal alcohol, gambling houses, prostitutes and Anglo-American seekers after these diversions. Companies were wary of the Klan, especially at first, but they resisted any organization that sought to compromise their social control of their towns, and they feared the KKK’s impact on black labor.