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Return of Bruce’s Beach Could Chart Path for Reparations in California

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News Commentary, News, Politics

4.2727 Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Prime coastline property in Los Angeles County known as Bruce’s Beach could be returned to descendants of its early 20th century Black owners if a state senate bill approved this week becomes law. In the 1920s, the Manhattan Beach City Council seized the beachfront land from Willa and Charles Bruce, who endured years of brutal harassment by white neighbors and the KKK. Its return could be a model for reparations in the state and comes as California’s new reparations task force convenes. We’ll talk about the history of Bruce’s Beach and its significance amid broader efforts to compensate Black Californians for historical injustices. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Coming up on forum, beachfront property in L.A. County, known as Bruce's Beach, could be returned

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to the descendants of a black family who owned it in the early 20th century. Legislation aimed at that just passed the state Senate.

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In the 1920s, White Manhattan Beach residents and the KKK

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forced the Bruce family to give up their coastline property

1:21.6

with the help of the city council, which claimed eminent domain.

1:24.6

Now the possible return of the land could be a model for California's new

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reparations task force that convened

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for the first time last week.

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The story of Bruce's Beach and its impact

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on broader efforts to repair

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historical injustices against black people.

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That's next after this news.

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This is Forum. I'm Mina Kim.

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