LA County will return $ 20 million worth of land to black families almost 100 years later. #County #Return #Land #Value # 20 million #Black #Family #Welcome to the year OLASMEDIA TV NEWSThis is what we have for you today:
The Los Angeles County Commission unanimously voted on Tuesday to give a black family who owned a resort in the African-American community a portion of the land facing the sea until it was seized by California officials in the 1920s. I returned it.
The Supervisory Board voted 5-0 on a motion to complete the relocation of the area known as Bruce Beach in Manhattan Beach. The area was later converted into a county guard training headquarters and parking lot.
Willa and Charles Bruce’s heirs reportedly bought land for $ 1,225 in 1912 and built the first West Coast resort for blacks when several beaches were separated.
The family was racistly harassed by a white neighbor and was robbed in 1924 to build a park under the guise of expropriation. It was then transferred to California in 1948.
In late 1995, the state transferred it to the county and banned further transfers.
LA County completed the process in May to confirm that Willa and Charles Bruce’s great-grandchildren Marcus and Derrick Bruce are legal heirs to real estate that are currently estimated to be worth up to $ 20 million. ..
“My great-grandparents Willa and Charles Bruce were sacrificed to gather in blacks and open a business that provided a place for socializing. Manhattan Beach robbed them of it because of their skin color. “It was,” said Anthony Bruce, a family spokesman, in a statement.
Bruce Beach Resort on Manhattan Beach
(Los Angeles Daily News / SCNG)
“It destroyed them financially. It destroyed their chances in the American dream.”
Owners were sticking to a thriving resort despite multiple vandalism and attacks by the white supremacist group Ku Klux Klan.
LA County Supervisor Janice Khan began the process of returning assets to Bruce’s descendants in April 2021 and demanded delivery after the state legislature passed a bill to lift restrictions on land transfers. ..
“We can’t change the past, and we can’t make up for the injustices that were committed to Willa and Charles Bruce a century ago, but this is the beginning,” emotional Ms. Hahn was quoted by the Associated Press. I’m saying.
“This may be the first land return of that kind, but it can’t be the last.”
The county chairman Holly Mitchell, who is voting, said the Bruces were “deprived of their property and wealth of generations because of unjustified laws and practices rooted in systematic racism.”
The co-author of the motion added, “We have not given property to anyone, we are returning property.”
“The property that was mistakenly robbed of them on the basis of fear and hatred.”
The transfer includes a two-year lease of the property to the county, with an annual rent of $ 413,000, including operating and maintenance costs. He added that the county has the right to buy land for up to $ 20 million.
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