To cater to tourists, many local businesses expected a relaxed approach from the vice police to gambling, and more acceptance of foreigners.
[2] La Paloma nightclub's performance offerings included early drag queens known as "female impersonators" singing and telling jokes, and women stripping.
[1] For the first time in ten years, the Ku Klux Klan conducted a "night ride" in the Miami area.
[4] Klan members began smashing furniture, roughing up workers, and threatening to burn the building down, all while ordering everyone out of the club.
"[3] Soon after the Ku Klux Klan raid, Dade County Sheriff David Coleman called the club a "menace" and vowed to keep it legally closed.