A Stolen Legacy: California Beachfront Town Grapples with Seizure of Black-Owned Hotel In 1920s
An L.A. County official recently announced plans to possibly return a $75 million beachfront property to the family of a Black couple that once owned it. Bruce’s Lodge resort circa 1915. (Photo provided/Manhattan Beach Historical Society) The news comes 97 years after policymakers in Manhattan Beach wrested the property away from the family as part…