Newsletter
Spring 2007
Celebrating Bruce's Beach
On March 31, Southern California
celebrated the renaming of an ocean
front park back to Bruce's Beach.
Bruce's Beach was one of the few
beaches in Southern California in the
early 1900s that was not off-limits to
African Americans. Manhattan
Beach condemned Bruce's Beach
and forced out the black community in
the 1920's and 30's. The City Project
has worked with Bernard Bruce, the
Bruce's grandson, to revive the forgotten
history of the people and place. It
is important to do more than just rename
the park. We are working with
Judy Baca and SPARC on public art
and interpretive panels to celebrate the
proud legacy of Bruce's Beach and African-American Los Angeles.
Learn more about the history of
Bruce's Beach at
www.cityprojectca.org/ourwork
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