Legacy of a Stolen Black Owned Beach | Bruce's Beach 

There are so many stories like this that remain untold. Thank you.

My bestie is a Bruce and this is her family!!!! I’m too excited to see this and they are actively trying to reclaim their land!!!

The plaque is a backhanded acknowledgement of the White community giving the middle finger to Black drive and success, while not wanting to pay up for doing wrong! A classic example of the price Black people pay when you "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" and prosper.

Perfect example of why there is such a big wealth gap in America

Can the family get some real compensation, now?

This is fascinating history. Santa Monica had a Black beach called Bay Street Beach. There was also a thriving Black community there with businesses and resorts in the 1920s and 1930s. Much of the history of Black Santa Monica is hidden today.

Blacks owned beaches and cottages on Hilton Head Island too.

This should be a movie. Many more stories like this one.

This video deserves way more attention

Thank you for educating. It always hard to hear when blacks are achieving in life, white people find a way to take away. History is still repeating itself.

Anyone who dislikes this video is very hateful. This was amazing, thanks for sharing!!

I'm in Manhattan Beach all the time & I'm born & raised in LA and didn't know None of this

They have returned this land to the Bruce family ❤

Where can I sign this petition?? G D Bruce

The park symbolizes peace, power and relief. I can’t wait to visit

I'm trippin off the 8 thumbs down, the only way they could ever beat us was cheat us

I WONDER WHAT else was taken from African Americans (I'm SURE ALOT) It's just TRULY SAD, I hope the family takes their land back and keep it in the family for generations to come.

Perhaps there is a way to restore it, if not the heirs, but somehow to make amends for the injustice. Times change. Moods change. Don't give up. (Especially if you have a direct connection to the Bruce owners.)

An Article in the MailOnline news outlet says the City is giving the Land Back to their descendants. These types of Atrocities happened throughout the U.S. (Tulsa, Rosewood, Wilmington, etc)

Let’s petition and fight for the property now

I'm sharing this big time. I live in Compton too. Fam Reunions....beach front baby....forever.

I really, really enjoyed this. I'd love to see more videos like this around the U.S. The interview was really amazing too.

The ONLY way to fight back are to educate and promote entrepreneurship in the black community.

Crazy how much shit we owned in America and we get shit took from us.

I had to go there today when I found out on the news that the government after almost a 100 years will be given the land back to the descendants of Bruce's beach original owners.

Sad! Again reparations are needed for all the families that have suffered for continuous agony.

I get emotional inside around da 3:40 mark because it truly shows how our present and next generations AINT TAKIN NO SHIT AND AINT TAKIN NO FOR AN ANSWER ✊🏾.

heartbreaking but wonderful video

How do we take it back? Legal action as a race of people? These wrongs have to be righted even if one at a time. If native americans can take back Tulsa lands, why can't we?

This is why reparations is important

Justice prevailed. Good for them. The town claimed emminent domain to steal it, but did nothing with it after the steal. What a sad story.

The family just received $20M for this land! Should’ve been more but knowing the full origin story now, I am happy for them. I really wonder how big the resort would be today if it wasn’t taken away.

That monument is a typical example of why I have little patience with those who defend monuments as precious and priceless pieces of "history" which are to be revered and maintained "as is" until the end of time and defended against any forms of criticism. If I was a stranger to that area or to American or Californian history and I had to depend on the words written on that plaque to tell me the actual history of what was done to the Bruce family, I would be as ignorant of that history when I finished reading it as I was before I read the words on it. And that, unfortunately, is the goal of most historical monuments in the US, selling slogans and defending the comforting (to many, anyway) myths of American goodness and exceptionalism. I hope that this family and thousands of other black families retrieve what was taken from them "back when America was great."

This is horrible but I'm glad to now know the truth...spread the word.

This story seems to replay over and over and over again in the lives of ADOS 🇺🇸people. Do you know the wealth we would have accumulated if all the land and homes we owned were not FORCEFULLY taken away from us. The government owes us a debt. Because they were complicit in this from the beginning until now

If you want to know just how many "Bruces Beaches" are out there, read "Sundown towns". There were over ten thousand towns that people of African descent were run out of town and their land confiscated. It is one of the reasons for poor black people huddled in the inner-cities of America.

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Anything to keep us down

Thank you for doing this story. I have heard of the Bruce's story recently.

I am happy this was awarded to the family

Friendship, goodwill, and all are welcome? Easy to say when you’re the one that took their shit smh

This is Black Education!!!

Thanks! Beautiful,inspiring and sad 😥 💙

Thank you for this history

Their family should sue to get their land back.

Turtle island aka America was our land copper color people like people you see in this video... foreigners came and took all of it and called it their own. We are the American Indians never forget that

This is sad and disappointing but not at all surprising. The system can never fail those it was NEVER meant to protect.

I bet the city will say they fairly paid the Bruces 14k for this property. The city of LA is playing God with ppl lands and properties daily.

I belive the property was returned to rightful owners, now worth over 100 million

Excellent story !!! Thanj you so very much. My family is going through the same thing today in 2021 !!!!!

Woohoo! It's April 2021. And the city of Manhattan Beach is giving the land back to the descendants of the Bruce family!!!

heartbreaking story. the words on the plaque are farcical.

I AM SO DEPRESSED OVER MY USA LIFE-HISTORY....CENTURIES NOW.......NEVER GONNA END......

Manhattan Beach is directly west of Compton. Rosecrans (as in Kendrick Lamars' Rosecrans:) runs directly to the sea at Manhattan Beach. To erase its Compton connection, in the early 1980s Manhattan Beach changed the name of an east-west thoroughfare, COMPTON, to "Marine" Avenue. 😏 Btw, the neighboring city of El Segundo, which is even more racist than Manhattan Beach, delayed the construction of the Century Freeway as long as possible to prevent a direct connection to Watts. In tandem, Manhattan Beach and El Segundo used their police departments to keep Black people out. For example, those cities positioned their police cars near the 405 freeway on and off ramps. Black motorists were pulled over and harassed. Reparations for the eminent domain seizure of Bruce's Beach is, as the LA Times reported, the "reckoning" which needs to happen--one of many other reckonings we need to see. #BlackLivesMatter

I posted on this recently. I wish the family would find an attorney and sue to get it back (if they haven't already).

Maybe we can get central park back next

And the american indian who owned the land in the first place? Guaranteed they were paid nothing.

Over and Over and Over again. Smh.

Reparations now!!

BTW you did a great job on the video.

April 2021 officials Los Angeles county is making a Wrong go back to Right. Bruce family will get their land back finally👑

Thank you!

Wow! Amazing 🙌😎🥰🙌 April 16 2021

They stole property in Santa Monica using eminent domain.

Bruce Freeman. Bop City! Seabreeze NC

Wow

Heartbreaking, These devil's don't take a day off!

Reminds me of My ancestors early American History. Arkansas was the only state to exile their free population prior to the Civil war... 1859 was the year.. They lost everything and had to leave in the heart of winter. I need your help!

This will set a precedent . North of San Diego Penasquitos subdivision is Lajjolla indian property stolen .

REPARATIONS

This happened all the time to upwardly mobile African Americans. Mostly they built highways after taking the land and properties.

Go get there land back

So true😟...

😢😥

I can only imagine how many more family land they took. Hell they took the whole America

BIG UP 2 THE SISTER LETTING PEOPLE KNOW OF THE NUCLEAR BLACK FAMILY INTACT

Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, TAKE, TAKE, TAKE.

They older so much all their wealth is really our wealth

Do you want to be featured on our Manhattan Beach channel?

Right, the family would have been millionaire's if it weren't for the land being stolen . We all know that is complete BS . The family bought the property for $2,000 and they got $14,000 for it .

Why are people so intimated by us? Why do they hate us so much.

I knew that lady was a black immigrant. Those were her people. She’s Belizean and not black American.

Our family owned and operated Carr's Beach in Annapolis Maryland, on the Chesapeake Bay. Musical entertainment from Motown, Supremes James Brown Smokey Robinson attendedand othe such as Joe Lewis attend Carr's Beach

Thank You!

White people & Asians: What about Native Americans.

I went here and posted on my Instagram not too long ago also... Where can we sign the petition? Stories like this continue to solidify the narrative. @ultimatum.ig

Hopefully you respect my point of view. The whole generational wealth argument doesn't hold water. In a nutshell. ; Willa purchases to nice homes after bruce beach. One for her and one for her son Harvy, his son and wife. Charles died 1931. Willa then purchases two income generating properties . Willa dies in 1934 leaving their son Harvey with 2 very nice homes and 2 probably apartment buildings. ( small ones) and a good size bank account. Harvey loses all 4 properties and they each get auctioned off because he borrowed against them and could not pay the taxes. He loses EVERYTHING in a 10 year period. A big % of the black community also did because it was during America's worst depression ever. Willa got out and moved because she was smart. In 1919 and 1920 you had 4 other black resorts open up. Lake Elsinore was a huge success. Bruce's Lodge the last 4 years was not doing great. Generational Weslth ended with Harvey. 70% of wealthy families lose all their wealth during the 2nd generation. 90% of families with wealth lose it the 3rd generation. To believe that 5 generations of Bruce's with non of them graduating college or having decent jobs would have just heald on to those beach lots is not realistic at all. If Willa did not move and continued to keep the Bruce's Lodge then when the depression hit she would have been stuck with 2 properties making payments on with fewer and fewer guest. She would have lost everything. The condemnation was the best thing that could have happened to her and Charles. They sold and got top dollar for their property just one year before the depression hit. It's just reality See my channel for more facts

Correct the wrong and return it back to them the rightfull owners .

They made it to a parking lot / park they better give that land back build a new resort for them start by moving cars cutting some trees take some roads out I could have that beach making the Bruce family money in year no permits needed

The e memorial was quietly removed recently

Do an update....

I can bet those who gave this a thumbs down, do not like the truth. Smh.

The family gust got it back.

I lived in beach property and experienced neo nazi toward me...Orange county.

The county seized the property under eminent domain and paid a stipend for it. This has happened throughout history and still happens today to people of ALL races. The urban renewal of the 70's took many properties the same way for mall developments and the governments only paid pennies on the dollar. Lets not pretend this was something that only happened to black people. If the family was paid for the property there is no way you can go back and pay the decendants AGAIN for the same property as this would open the door for everyone who has had property taken in the same manner.

There were actually many more people that owned property including Black people not just the people that have made the news lately. I believe there were a total of 30 families or property owners who were taken over by eminent domain including 4 other black families. The other black families move to other residences within Manhattan Beach the other white families get the same the only family that I was not able to or did not want to move to another area I believe was this family who ended up in another state.I feel bad for these people but I think the whole entire story needs to be told about the other black families and also the other white families that also had their property taken hopefully everyone will be compensated black and white

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Thank you for this educational and eye opening video. My parents owned a house on a large piece of property near LAX in the early 1960's. The city of Los Angeles kicked them and their all white neighbors out via eminent domain too. That lot is worth at least a half million dollars now. Maybe I should sue the city for it no longer being in my family home and property. They obviously targeted an all-white neighborhood. I am certain that they purposly targeted an all white area, because this didn't happen to black or hispanic people who also lived by the airport in Los Angeles at the time. Again, thank you for a very informative and nicely done video; it has really opened my eyes to the injustice that my family too was subjected to.

Does that mean we're going to get the doctor stadium back to the Latino families at the land of Storm from

That's Chumash land.