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Meda Simmons Bruce, Harvey Bruce, and Willa Bruce at Bruce’s Lodge. date unknown. Photo from the California African American Museum
An American dream came to an end at Bruce’s Beach, but the memory of what happened survived
Third in a series
by Mark McDermott
By the first years of the 1920s, Manhattan Beach was coming together. In the decade since its founding, what had been mostly a scattering of sandswept shacks emerged as an actual town. A city hall was built and residents approved bonds to construct both a waterworks and a pier with a distinctive octagonal roundhouse at its end. The city’s population had increased, albeit modestly, from 600 people to almost 900. But one particular segment of the population was growing in a way that some people in the city found concerning.
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Alston and Woodruff each had to his name a dynamic body of work exploring the aesthetics, struggles and historical consciousness of the African Diaspora. Their business in California, however, carried them to new ancestral landscapes. They crisscrossed the state in search of historic landmarks and artifacts, retracing by highways and automobile the centuries-old footsteps of Black explorers, settlers and leaders. Along the way, they encountered not only their triumphs and tragedies, but also the hardships these pioneers faced in their battle[s] for a place in the sun. Their mission was to assemble a new memory site in Los Angeles out of many, one that would illuminate the accomplishments of their forebears while arguing for full integration into postwar life.
» Los Angeles County will open up vaccine eligibility to some additional essential workers, including teachers, on March 1. Grocery store staff, child-care providers, and other key people will be included in the group, expected to add around 1.3 million people to the number currently eligible in the county.
» Public schools may soon be allowed to reopen, but LAUSD teachers don’t think it is safe yet. United Teachers Los Angeles proposes waiting until the county fully exits the state’s ‘purple tier,’ which indicates widespread COVID-19, a lower community transmission rate, for schools to have “strict multi-layered mitigation strategies in place,” and for all staff to have access to vaccinations before sending educators back to campus. [LAist]