'We forced you out.' Nearly six decades after community of Russell City was razed, Alameda County Board of Supervisors apologize to residents and descendants.
HAYWARD – Seized and destroyed last century thanks in part to actions by former members of the Alameda County Board of Supervisors, the current supervisors apologized Tuesday to previous residents and descendants of Russell City, a community established in 1853 near the Hayward shoreline.
"We forced you out," said Alameda County Supervisor Keith Carson to former residents and descendants of Russell City present at the meeting Tuesday.Residents of Russell City had a sense of community, pride, and among other things, joy, Marquez said.Russell City, a predominantly Black and Latino community in Alameda County, was declared a blight by county officials in the 1950s. Its last residents were forced out in 1966 after the community was annexed into Hayward.
Knowles helped produce the movie, which began with an interview of her father. Creators are submitting the movie to film festivals before it debuts more broadly to the public next year. Ethnic minorities such as Black, Hispanic and Puerto Rican people were paid around $2,000 for their property, which was said to be fair market value, according to the resolution.
Carson cited other forms of government oppression of Black people, such as New York's use of eminent domain to remove Black people from Seneca Village to make way for Central Park.
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