Black Family Given Deed to Bruce's Beach Nearly 100 Years After Land Was Stripped from Their Ancestors
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. On Wednesday, Dean Logan, the county’s registrar-recorder, presented a certified copy of the land transfer for the Manhattan Beach land — where the Bruces once ran a thriving resort for Black travelers — to Anthony Bruce, a great-great-grandson of the Bruces, according to theAssociated Press....