The property was seized from the Bruce's, a Black family who had developed the land to include a resort for other Blacks in the area who were not allowed to visit other beaches, under the guise of eminent domain in 1924, in order to build a park which was not completed until 1960.
Los Angeles County officials are set to return a popular stretch of land in Manhattan Beach to a Black family that owned the property nearly a century ago, when it was forcefully taken from them.
They owned the land until 1924, when it was seized by local government under the guise of eminent domain. The city condemned the surrounding areas under the pretense of building a park in the area. The family had been targeted by acts of vandalism, including attacks on visitor's vehicles and an attack by the Ku Klux Klan.
"At long last, the descendants of Willa and Charles Bruce will be able to begin rebuilding the wealth that has been denied to generations of Bruces since their property was seized nearly a century ago," said Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn, who championed the motion to return the land to the Bruce family."We will never be able to rectify the injustice that was inflicted upon the Bruce family, but this is a start, and it is the right thing to do.
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