Legacy of a Stolen Black Owned Beach | Bruce's Beach
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
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In 1912, Charles and Willa Bruce bought a piece of land by the beach in Manhattan Beach, California. A resort was built on that land for Black beachgoers to enjoy at a time when beaches were segregated.
What became of that resort is a tragedy that is a prime example of systemic racism.
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There are so many stories like this that remain untold. Thank you.
so true!!! and unfortunately some we will never know or hear about, if the ppl are dead or were killed for instance...
Bill Gates bought from the U.S. Dept. of the Interior and Bureau of Land Management 14,500 acres of STOLEN Tribal Nations farmland in East Washington State... paying over $171M, and not One Cent went to those who the land was STOLEN from. Southern Canada, Washington State, Montana, North and South Dakota, Idaho, Wyoming, Minnesota, Wisconsin... from "Missing young and adult Indian Nations Women", to Land Theft of the Tribal Nations... Big Oil and Monsanto are Killers and Thieves.
And, those aren't WHITE, Black or Asian "Unmarked" graves being discovered from Southern Canada, down into Oklahoma.
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!!!
@Kate Simpson im apart of the bruce fam
The land has been returned ❤
@@jannonjackson2628 yep, they make ppl return artifacts from Italy and other places.
Perfect example of why there is such a big wealth gap in America
Demographics of Manhattan beach 80% white 12% Asian, less than 1% African American, I wonder if that 1% is Mix people who can pass for white, but they are people who look like Steff Curry and Zendaya.
@@jason4275 Actually that is not true. African Americans made up 12 percwn tof the population of California long before many whites came there. These two owners are not mixed. I suggest you mot speak for African Americans. Many African Americans left because the KKK came and threatened them. White peopke are not afriad of Asianas or Hispanics becasue they consider them weaker. White people are afriad of African Americans becasue of our rich history. Jealousy is the cause
& they sold it for only 20 million
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.
Janet Bennett: Like Black Wall St.
Can the family get some real compensation, now?
They will. Very soon
Including the resort back the building's at all
@survivaleeconomics, they just did.
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.
Taken away by WHITE farmers by "Heir's" Property laws which were implemented by... WHITE Americans.
This video deserves way more attention
Thank you!
Would be an good nextflix movie or Doc.
Juan Sanders: This story is in the papers today. I have just seen it in the Guardian newspaper.
Anyone who dislikes this video is very hateful. This was amazing, thanks for sharing!!
Thank you for watching! We don't understand the dislikes either :)
This should be a movie. Many more stories like this one.
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.
"when blacks are achieving in life, white people find a way to take away" u beautiffully sum it all up sista! this is the reason why we should look for wealthy communities and political power to defend us whereever we r in the world: ua-cam.com/video/sXGMsTAHrYs/v-deo.html
@@adegirly democrats
@@MasterEggroll ???
Bill Gates bought from the U.S. Dept. of the Interior and Bureau of Land Management 14,500 acres of STOLEN Tribal Nations farmland in East Washington State... paying over $171M, and not One Cent went to those who the land was STOLEN from. Southern Canada, Washington State, Montana, North and South Dakota, Idaho, Wyoming, Minnesota, Wisconsin... from "Missing young and adult Indian Nations Women", to Land Theft of the Tribal Nations... Big Oil and Monsanto are Killers and Thieves.
And, those aren't WHITE, Black or Asian "Unmarked" graves being discovered from Southern Canada, down into Oklahoma.
@@MasterEggrollNo, it’s white people period, no matter whether they were Republicans or Democrats.
They have returned this land to the Bruce family ❤
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.
Our land, our music, our rights, our life basically
The ONLY way to fight back are to educate and promote entrepreneurship in the black community.
Where can I sign this petition?? G D Bruce
Sorry for the late response, here is the link to the petition: www.change.org/p/manhattan-beach-city-council-address-the-full-history-of-bruce-s-beach
@@BlackExcellenceMedia Great work.
The park symbolizes peace, power and relief. I can’t wait to visit
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)
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.)
Absolutely!
I'm in Manhattan Beach all the time & I'm born & raised in LA and didn't know None of this
We didn't know either until recently!
You got to learn our history but let's be real if it wasn't for the George Floyd murder a lot of stuff on the internet would not be popping up
Then you got the benefit of the eminent domain. That was the purpose of such. This has been going on for centuries and has happened more to white people than black people. This happened in the 70's under urban renewal.
@@tmilesffl Maybe that's because America did a really good job of preventing black ownership for most of its existence. You cannot take from people who do not have. I would be quite willing to suggest that the million or so acres taken from black farmers since 1900 in addition to urban renewal which largely targeted black people from coast to, along with the denial of access to the GI Bill and home loans have all done more harm to the black community as a whole than eminent domain has done to white people. I am also quite certain that the real beneficiaries of eminent domain were probably at least 90% white.
@@tmilesffl give us some examples of white people who lost property. General statements don’t cut it...
Sad! Again reparations are needed for all the families that have suffered for continuous agony.
Let’s petition and fight for the property now
I'm trippin off the 8 thumbs down, the only way they could ever beat us was cheat us
Don't focus on the negative. Focus on the positive.
@@thinktank8813 There is no 'positive' in racism and hatred!
They're thumbs downing that this happened, not necessarily this video? I'm assuming
I'm sharing this big time. I live in Compton too. Fam Reunions....beach front baby....forever.
This is why reparations is important
Crazy how much shit we owned in America and we get shit took from us.
Crazy indeed! Thanks for watching!
Yeah, because it only happens to black people. Happens MORE to white people and I bet you have benefitted from it and don't even know. If you have shopped at a mall then you benefitted from it in the same manner. Learn about Urban Renewal from the 70's.
@@tmilesffl Educate us since you know so much about the generational black American experience...
@@musclecarmason I can't wait to her Ted tell us how black people released from slavery with nothing but the clothes on their backs were exactly in the same starting positions as newly arrived willing white immigrants.
Bruce's beach, Seneca Village (Central Park), Black Wall Street, Rosewood
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
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.
Support Restorative Justice and Stand Against Racism Now! Return BRUCE’S BEACH! #Brucesbeach #manhattanbeach? #BLM
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
Heartbreaking indeed. Thank you so much for the love!
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?
Social pressure is a good place to start and the family has been working for a while to get some kind of legal action.
We don't need to take it back we need to go and buy something new
Let's do both
The Native Americans had their land TAKEN from them with no compensation. This family was paid under eminent domain in the same manner as many others have had their properties taken and compensated. The family decendents have no legal recourse. this is another attempt to make money that isn't theirs. Just like the lady wo sued the university because they had a photo of her ancestor and wanted money for it. She lost.
Because it all belongs to american indians and no one else. They where here first every square inch of north america.
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.
Anything to keep us down
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.
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.
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.
I belive the property was returned to rightful owners, now worth over 100 million
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.
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
Friendship, goodwill, and all are welcome? Easy to say when you’re the one that took their shit smh
Right??? The nerve!
I am happy this was awarded to the family
Their family should sue to get their land back.
This is Black Education!!!
Thanks!
Beautiful,inspiring and sad 😥 💙
Thank you for this history
This is sad and disappointing but not at all surprising. The system can never fail those it was NEVER meant to protect.
Thank you for doing this story. I have heard of the Bruce's story recently.
Woohoo! It's April 2021. And the city of Manhattan Beach is giving the land back to the descendants of the Bruce family!!!
And the american indian who owned the land in the first place? Guaranteed they were paid nothing.
Man stfu
They got the Indian Casinos and their own sovereign land.
@@md-wg4bz Thats it?
I posted on this recently. I wish the family would find an attorney and sue to get it back (if they haven't already).
I'm sure they will!
It depends who you ask who you talk to they've received some kind of settlement the black family
Why are people so intimated by us? Why do they hate us so much.
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
Maybe we can get central park back next
heartbreaking story.
the words on the plaque are farcical.
They stole property in Santa Monica using eminent domain.
I AM SO DEPRESSED OVER MY USA LIFE-HISTORY....CENTURIES NOW.......NEVER GONNA END......
There is hope for change!
Don't be keep the faith I had a conversation with an elderly lady about 5-6 months ago and she told me a similar story about a section and Santa Monica the beach that was Black on
@Kate Simpson because we built this.
April 2021 officials Los Angeles county is making a Wrong go back to Right. Bruce family will get their land back finally👑
Excellent story !!! Thanj you so very much. My family is going through the same thing today in 2021 !!!!!
Over and Over and Over again. Smh.
Not anymore! our privilege
Reparations now!!
This happened all the time to upwardly mobile African Americans. Mostly they built highways after taking the land and properties.
This will set a precedent . North of San Diego Penasquitos subdivision is Lajjolla indian property stolen .
I can only imagine how many more family land they took. Hell they took the whole America
Heartbreaking, These devil's don't take a day off!
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 .
The property was valued at over $100k!
REPARATIONS
BTW you did a great job on the video.
Go get there land back
Thank you!
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
They older so much all their wealth is really our wealth
BIG UP 2 THE SISTER LETTING PEOPLE KNOW OF THE NUCLEAR BLACK FAMILY INTACT
Correct the wrong and return it back to them the rightfull owners .
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.
Not once has anyone said this only happens to black folks, but you know very good well that this was racially motivated. It's people like you that float around the internet trolling to minimize what black folks in America have gone through and still go through. What happened to the Bruce family wasn't about any type of "community development", it was without a single doubt, covert racism under the guise of eminent domain, and you know it. They took the land. Not only that, they didn't build anything on the land for years, just left it vacant, and when they finally did do something with the land, they planted a patch of grass and built a parking lot and deemed it a park. Seriously, just stop with the madness, you know exactly why this happened, and trying to insert the "It happens to white people more" is asinine, of course it happens to white people more, because white people make up the largest portion of the US population and land owners, but we're not talking about white folks experience, because we hear about it everyday from birth, we're talking about the Bruce family, and many other black families that have had their lands stolen from them by overt and covert racism. God bless!!
The family was UNDERPAID for the property.
Those people can fight back also....
Do you want to be featured on our Manhattan Beach channel?
I can bet those who gave this a thumbs down, do not like the truth. Smh.
The truth is never heard or excepted, this video isn't even the whole truth, just feeds a narrative. The truth is that 26 land owners were forced to sell their properties along with the Bruce's, in total only 6 of them were black, why no mention of this? 20 non black Manhattan beach land owners were paid less than the Bruce family and forced to move also but no one wants to hear nor cares about the truth.
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, TAKE, TAKE, TAKE.
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!
White people & Asians: What about Native Americans.
not even knowing us black ARE the natives
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
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
Wow
Bruce Freeman. Bop City! Seabreeze NC
Wow! Amazing
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April 16 2021
The e memorial was quietly removed recently
I knew that lady was a black immigrant.
Those were her people. She’s Belizean and not black American.
7:55 he clearly said his African American family owned the beach. Relax.
The family gust got it back.
I lived in beach property and experienced neo nazi toward me...Orange county.
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.
You're very welcome, thanks for watching!
Man stfu
Hahaha
People stop wondering how many other places belong to us. Just know that the world was given to us by the Most High. That's the root of all their hatred.
Do an update....
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
Do not sell or build homes, the descendants needs to Turn it into apartments and keep the profits.
So true😟...
😢😥
When's the protest?????
Wow they stole our shit
THOU SHALT NOT STEAL.
I've noticed after every Post-Southern Strategy Republican Political Gain an uptick in racism and I'm not even Black.
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
In 1924, the city passed an ordinance declaring its intention to acquire through eminent domain the land that the Bruces and other families owned to turn it into a park. The condemnation covered 30 lots in the tract. Five were owned by the African American families and had either cottages on their lots or the two lots of the Bruce’s Lodge. The other 25 lots were owned by white owners and none had buildings on them