Plaque acknowledging racist history of California beach town stolen, police say

Bruce’s Beach was a rare resort for Black residents of Manhattan Beach starting in 1912, until city seized it in 1924

A plaque recognizing the racist history of a southern California beach town that seized land from a Black family in the 1920s has been stolen, police say.

The monument was erected last year in Manhattan Beach in Los Angeles county to honor the history of Bruce’s Beach where a Black couple built a popular resort for Black Americans in the early 1900s before the local government took control of their land and destroyed their business.