Los Angeles County took land from Charles and Willa Bruce in the 1920s under eminent domain. It's finally been returned to their family.
A Black family robbed of their money-making land in the 1920s now stands to make millions off the land they should have owned all along.
Charles and Willa Bruce bought the beachfront plot in Los Angeles' Manhattan Beach in the early 1900s for a little over $1,200. They turned it into a little paradise — a bathhouse, a dance hall, a cafe — as the first west coast resort for Black people. "It's almost like being transported to the other side of the known universe," Anthony Bruce, great-great-grandson of Charles and Willa Bruce, said."It's like going from [being] a middle-class American to, you know, a wealthy class American."
"This is one win, but we deserve more wins," Kavon Ward, organizer of Justice for Bruce's Beach, said."And I'm going to help all the Black families that I can try to reclaim the land that was stolen from them."
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Bruce family gets deed back to California beach land stolen from Black entrepreneurs in 1920sDean Logan, Los Angeles County’s registrar-recorder, handed the deed to Bruce family members during a ceremony near Highland Avenue and 26th Street on Wednesday, July 20.
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Bruce family gets deed back to Manhattan Beach land stolen from Black entrepreneurs in 1920sDean Logan, Los Angeles County’s registrar-recorder, handed the deed to Bruce family members during a ceremony near Highland Avenue and 26th Street on Wednesday, July 20.
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Bruce's Beach returned to heirs of Black coupleJustice prevailed for the heirs of the Black couple who had a beachfront property stolen from them nearly a century ago.
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California beachfront returned to heirs of Black ownersLos Angeles County officials present the deed to a California oceanfront property to the heirs of a Black couple who built a beach resort for African Americans but were stripped of the land nearly a century ago.
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Bruce family gets deed back to California beach land stolen from Black entrepreneurs in 1920sDean Logan, Los Angeles County’s registrar-recorder, handed the deed to Bruce family members during a ceremony near Highland Avenue and 26th Street on Wednesday, July 20.
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Bruce family gets deed back to Manhattan Beach land stolen from Black entrepreneurs in 1920sDean Logan, Los Angeles County’s registrar-recorder, handed the deed to Bruce family members during a ceremony near Highland Avenue and 26th Street on Wednesday, July 20.
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