Nearly a century after it was seized from a prominent Black family, the oceanside property known as 'Bruce's Beach' was officially returned to the descendants of its original owners. We look back at the history of the property.
."This is not the Bruce's [sic] fight. It is a fight for all the people," she wrote.
The Bruces, now elderly, were devastated by their treatment."They used most of the fortune they had amassed from running the resort there on the beach to fight the condemnation and the eminent domain procedures," Shepard says.To add insult to injury, the city didn't award the Bruces their settlement money until 1932, a year after Charles died. Willa died two years later, in 1934."They didn't talk about that very much.
When Kavon Ward moved to Manhattan Beach in the 2010s, she was shocked by the prejudice she encountered, which included being asked, repeatedly, if she was a nanny."This is the type of stuff that I had been experiencing for some time. And so, when I learned about the Bruces, I was like, 'Okay, of course this happened here,'" Ward says.and began to advocate for the return of the beachfront property to the Bruces' descendants.
"The resistance to justice and equality is real. I find that there's a small percentage of white people in Manhattan Beach who are very, very, very extremely supportive," she says.
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