The Los Angeles County Board has created a strategy to move forward with returning the waterfront Manhattan Beach property to the descendants of Willa and Charles Bruce.
Willa and Charles Bruce bought a portion of property on California’s Manhattan Beach in 1912 for $1,225. They built a beach resort for Black residents who had nowhere to go for vacation. As the resort started to gain traction, it enraged the white residents and became a target for an attack by the Klu Klux Klan. As a result, in 1924, the city condemned the property and ceased the land under eminent domain.
Chief Duane Yellow Feather Shepard of the Pocasset Wampanoag Tribe of the Pokanoket Nation, and descendant and spokesperson of the Bruce Family, joins Charles Blow on “Prime” to discuss the plan.
All this and more on “Prime.”
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