BREAKING: L.A. County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to return ownership of a pristine piece of Manhattan Beach seaside property to the descendants of a Black family who had the land stripped away nearly a century ago.
Black families settled in Manhattan Beach in the early 1900s, but the city chased them out. Now the city is confronting its racist past.
Under the agreement approved by the board Tuesday, the land was transferred to Marcus and Derrick Bruce, the great-grandsons of Charles and Willa Bruce. The Bruces will lease the land back to the county for $413,000 a year for the continued operation of county lifeguard facilities at the site. Hahn's voice quaked with emotions at times as she discussed the roughly yearlong effort to return the land, an effort she said will be"one of the most important things ... I've been involved in."
While celebrating the approval of the land transfer, Mitchell said there is still much more work to do to"call out and acknowledge systemic racism." But the resort quickly became a target of the area's white populace, leading to acts of vandalism, attacks on vehicles of Black visitors and even a 1920 attack by the Ku Klux Klan.
The families sued, claiming they were the victims of a racially motivated removal campaign. The Bruces were eventually awarded some damages, as were other displaced families. But the Bruces were unable to reopen their resort anywhere else in town.
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