The Black family who won the return of Bruce's Beach will sell it back to LA County

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Nearly 100 years ago, the government took a Southern California beach away from its Black owners because of the color of their skin. Descendants finally regained the land — and now they intend to sell it back to LA County for nearly $20 million.

a bill clearing the way for the beach to be transferred back to the descendants of Willa and Charles Bruce.Chief Duane"Yellow Feather" Shepard is an extended member of the Bruce family of Bruce's Beach and currently acts as a representative for their interests.

It's not clear what happens next to the beach property. Under a previous California law, the county had been barred from transferring the land and was able to use the beach area for recreation purposes only. But the law that cleared the path for the Bruce family to regain control of the property does not have the same provisions.

"Wherever we have tried to buy land for a beach resort we have been refused, but I own this land and I am going to keep it," Willa Bruce was quoted saying at the time, according to aWedding portrait of Charles Aaron and Willa A. Bruce.

 

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