LA County moves towards reparations for Bruce’s Beach
LA County Supervisor Kenneth Hahn welcomes Dr. Martin Luther King to Los Angeles in 1961. Hahn was the only elected official who would meet with King at that time. Hahn’s daughter, Supervisor Janice Hahn, is spearheading what she hopes is another ground-breaking moment in civil rights — returning Bruce’s Beach to the Bruce family. Photo courtesy Janice Hahn Embarrassment. That was Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn’s reaction last year when she first heard the history of Bruce’s Beach, in which a Black-owned resort was taken by force from a family by the City of Manhattan Beach in 1924 after suffering a decade of violence-tinged harassment from the Ku Klux Klan and other local white supremacists. “I was embarrassed that I, who grew up in Los Angeles County, did not ever hear or learn of Bruce’s Beach in Manhattan Beach,” said Hahn, who grew up going to the beach and learned to swim in the ocean just a few blocks from Bruce’s Beach. Hahn thought she knew something of the history of race in the United States, and particularly Los Angeles County. Her father was Kenneth Hahn, the famed Los Angeles County Supervisor who, for four decades, held the same seat his daughter…
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