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Anthony Bruce, center, is the great-great grandson of Charles and Willa Bruce, the couple who were pushed off the land. Bruce spoke Thursday at news conference in Manhattan Beach with Gov. Gavin ...
The Bruce's Beach plaque is at the top of the hill, but the actual Bruce property is the lifeguard building at the bottom of the hill, on the Strand at Bruce's Beach between 26th Street and 27th ...
The Bruce's Beach Plaque Dedication Ceremony was scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 25. It has been rescheduled for Saturday, March 18, 2023, the city announced Thursday.
Bruce's Beach was so renamed by the Manhattan Beach City Council in 2006, as a first step toward righting the wrongs that were done to the Bruce family who purchased and owned the segregated ...
Willa Bruce, the original owner of Bruce’s Beach, circa 1920 in front of her beach resort. Bruce’s Beach was the only ocean access point for Black people in Los Angeles at the time.
The deed to Bruce's Beach has been returned to the descendants of Willa and Charles Bruce, nearly a century after the oceanfront property was seized from the Black entrepreneurs.
Two new plaques will soon commemorate the original Black owners of Bruce’s Beach in Manhattan Beach, and other Black families who lost land alongside them. This 2020 file photo shows Willa Bruce ...
That battle led to a massive project to create Bruce Beach Park with construction currently underway on the $6.3 million first phase that includes building a central plaza with a walkway, shade ...
Their parents and friends milled around Bruce, shaking his hand. “I feel comfortable,” he said as he gazed out over the sands of Manhattan Beach. “It’s a great day.” ...
Anthony Bruce, center, is the great-great grandson of Charles and Willa Bruce, the couple who were pushed off the land. Bruce spoke Thursday at news conference in Manhattan Beach with Gov. Gavin ...