They Stole Their Beach in 1924. 98 Years Later, Justice Returned It. In 1912, Willa and Charles Bruce bought a piece of California beachfront for $1,225 and built Bruce's Beach—the first Black-owned resort in Southern California. By 1916 it was thriving. Families from all over Los Angeles came to swim, dance, and enjoy freedom at the only beach where they weren't segregated. But white Manhattan Beach residents couldn't accept Black entrepreneurship. When Klan terrorism failed to drive them out,
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