posted July 20, 2021 02:26 PM
LA County officials will return a beach property worth millions nearly 100 years after it was seized from a Black family
http://www.insider.com/la-county-bruce-beach-family-property-2021-7 It will return to descendants of the family, and its worth $75 million.
Chief Duane Yellow Feather Shepard's primary goal is to defend his tribe. His top priority is the Bruce family, his extended relatives whose descendants are on track to receive land taken from them nearly a century ago.
It's been a challenge for years to reobtain the beachfront property seized from Charles and Willa Bruce a couple who purchased land in Manhattan Beach, California and created a "sanctuary" for Black residents to enjoy the beach amid racial discrimination in the early 1900s.
"It was a very important place because there was no other place along the coast of California where African Americans could actually go and enjoy the water," Shepard, the Bruce family historian and spokesperson, told Insider.
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posted July 20, 2021 02:26 PM