Bruce's Beach will be sold back to LA County for $20 million - NPR
Jan 4, 2023 · Nearly 100 years ago, a local government in Southern California took Bruce's Beach away from its Black owners because of the color of their skin. The owners' descendants won a long effort to...
Returning Bruce’s Beach: - Los Angeles County
On April 20, 2021, the L.A. County Board of Supervisors voted to take the first steps toward returning Bruce’s Beach by instructing the L.A. County Chief Executive Office to develop a plan to return the property and by sponsoring Senate Bill 796 to …
California beach seized from Black family in 1924 set to be …
Apr 20, 2021 · On Tuesday, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted 5-0 to return the property to the descendants of Willa and Charles Bruce. The Bruces bought the first of two ocean-view lots for $1,225, a property that could now be worth millions.
California seized land from a Black family 98 years ago. Officials …
The descendants of Willa and Charles Bruce, who purchased the land for $1,225 in 1912 and built it into a seaside resort for Black families, will retake ownership of Bruce’s Beach in the city...
California land taken from Black couple in 1920's returned to heirs
Jun 29, 2022 · The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to return ownership of prime California beachfront property to descendants of a Black couple who built a resort for African Americans...
Moving to Right Historical Wrong, Governor Newsom ... - California …
Sep 30, 2021 · MANHATTAN BEACH – Nearly a century after Bruce’s Beach was wrongfully taken from Black entrepreneurs Willa and Charles Bruce, Governor Gavin Newsom today signed legislation that will enable Los Angeles County to return the beachfront property to their descendants, continuing the state’s leadership to redress historical injustices and ...
Family plans to sell Bruce’s Beach property back to LA County ... - CNN
Jan 3, 2023 · Bruce’s Beach, an oceanfront property in Southern California that was taken from Black owners in the Jim Crow era and returned to their descendants last year, will be sold back to Los Angeles...
Bruce's Beach returned to family in California 100 years later - USA TODAY
Jul 21, 2022 · Nearly 100 years after a Black couple was racially harassed and stripped of their California oceanfront resort, Los Angeles County officials on Wednesday gave the land back to their descendants.
The Black family who won the return of Bruce's Beach will sell
Jan 4, 2023 · Nearly 100 years ago, a local government in Southern California took Bruce's Beach away from its Black owners because of the color of their skin. The owners' descendants won a long effort to...
California Beach Returned To Family Nearly 100 Years After
Jun 29, 2022 · Nearly 100 years after a Black family’s oceanfront property was seized by the government during racial segregation, Southern California officials have agreed to return the property to their living descendants in an effort to “right a wrong.”
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