In the dressing room of a Los Angeles night club Jerry Ellsworth (Richard Gilden) and his white mistress Andrea (Rima Kutner) are listening to riot news on TV. Later in Jerry’s apartment, he receives a call from Turnerville, Alabama that his 6-year old daughter has been killed by the Klan in a church bombing. He decides to change his appearance and identity and goes back to Turnerville to find the killer. He has been told that the Klan head is Rook (Harry Lovejoy), and so goes to his office and proposes that Rook come to Los Angeles and help him form a new Klan. Rook agrees and invites Jerry to a Klan rally the next night.

Farley, whose brother has been killed by the Klan, decides to bring in Raymond Estes (Max Julien) Harlem gangster to fight force with force. Raymond in a stolen car, breaks up the Klan rally.

Meanwhile, Andrea and Lonnie (Jimmy Mack) follow Jerry to Turnerville, only to find that Jerry is passing for a white man. The sheriff Wallace finds Andrea and Lonnie in a room together, knocks out Lonnie and takes pictures of the two in bed. They take the pictures to an initiation where Jerry has just been inducted into the Klan. All members of the Klan gather up Andrea, Lonnie, Raymond, and take them to a lynching tree. Jerry helps Andrea and Lonnie escape, then reveals himself to Rook as a negro and prepares to shoot Rook. He changes his mind, but Rook attempts to run him down, meanwhile lynching Raymond, but finally being shot by Jerry.

Jerry then dismisses Andrea and Lonnie, and decides to remain in Turnerville to help his people learn to get along peacefully with the white people in the community.