Santa Monica’s Ebony Beach Club: The City Took His Land to Build a Parking Lot That Never Was, Now Silas White’s Descendants Are Fighting to Reclaim the Stolen Land and Dream
Ninety-year-old Connie White says her father, Silas White, always wanted to do something for his Black community in Santa Monica, California. Several decades ago, her father opened a laundromat across from Santa Monica College, along with two real estate offices and a successful hamburger stand in the area. Silas White’s family is fighting to reclaim…
