Family plans to sell Bruce's Beach property back to LA County for $20 million | CNN

Bruce’s Beach, an oceanfront property in Southern California that was taken from Black owners in the Jim Crow era and returned to their descendants last year, will be sold back to Los Angeles County for nearly $20 million, county officials said Tuesday. Family members of the original landowners, Willa and Charles Bruce, have informed the county of their decision to sell Bruce’s Beach, Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Chair Janice Hahn said in a statement.

The resort became a popular tourist attraction that offered Black families a place to enjoy the California life, but the family faced intimidation and racial threats from White neighbors and the Ku Klux Klan. In 1924, Manhattan Beach took the property citing eminent domain and paid the couple a fraction of what they asked for. The Bruces left and died just five years later. Bruce’s Beach is now a park with a lawn and lifeguard training facility.

20 million? Are they kidding me?

Wonder if that was the plan all along. If the family is happy, I’m happy.

Fuck that! Please somebody come forward and offer them more to preserve this moment in life. All you ballers, big shots and educated professional African-American individuals. Please don't do an injustice to justice

This wild they could have easily leased it back to the city that’s way to cheap it’s hundreds a millions to be made here smh 🤦🏾‍♂️

When the 20 mils went kaput! They will want the property back.

It will be ruined

All Libs should donate their white privileged properties as a first reparations step.

In a few years, the family can claim that they were forced to sell the property to the government and ask to have it returned.

$20 million for prime LA Count beachfront? Hmmmm

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