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BLACK RESORT DURING JIM CROW) Introduction: Bruce’s Beach was a small beach resort in the city of Manhattan Beach, California, that was owned by and operated for Black Americans. It provided the Black American community with opportunities unavailable at other beach areas because of segregation.As a result of racial friction from disgruntled white neighbors, the property was seized using eminent domain proceedings in the 1920s and closed down. Some of the area was eventually turned into a city park in the 1960s and renamed Bruce’s Beach in 2007.
Backstory: Bruce’s Beach was a spectacular beach front property with spectacular views. George H. Peck (1856–1940), a wealthy white developer and the founder of Manhattan Beach, “bucked” the practice of racial exclusion and set aside two city blocks of beachfront area and made them available for purchase by Black Americans. Peck also developed “Peck’s Pier,” the only pier in the area open to Black Americans.Willa and Charles Bruce (top photo) bought a property in the strand area for $1,225 that was set aside from Henry Willard in 1912, and added on three lots. They established a resort and named it for Mrs. Bruce.
The development included a bathhouse and dining house for blacks, whose access to public beaches was highly restricted. That a black-only beach resort would open up there was all the more notable because Manhattan Beach was “an otherwise lily-white community” and blacks only had limited access to beaches; Mrs. Bruce’s initiative “defiantly transgressed these racial boundaries.“It was not the only beach attraction available to blacks; there was also Peck’s Pier and pavilion on 34th Street, a section of Santa Monica State Beach referred to as the “Ink Well”, and the Pacific Beach Club in Orange County. As Los Angeles’s population increased and property values soared in the 1920s, blacks in the area suffered from increased racial tension, before eminent domain proceedings started by the city forced the club to close down. In 1920s the resort was attacked by the Ku Klux Klan in an attempt to get the city to take back the land from the rightful owners, Bruce family. Under the pretense of building a city park, the city of Manhattan Beach did take the land away from the Bruce family, and Black Americans were run off the land. It was not until 2007, practically eighty years later, that this traversity was acknowledged by the city and the beach was renamed Bruce’s Beach.
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Jessie Owens with then Florida A&M University sprinter Bob Hayes in 1963.
Think this is a Photoshop, not an original picture. Look at the middle of Mrs. King & Ms. Parks. The chairs & the position they are sitting do not match.
Mae Jemison. Mae Carol Jemison (born October 17, 1956) is an American engineer, physician and NASA astronaut. She became the first African-American woman to travel in space when she went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour on September 12, 1992.
First black woman in space
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First black woman in space
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First black woman in space on TV
A young and intense Phylicia Rashad in a still from a Negro Ensemble Company production.
Phylicia Rashad is beautiful.
Mae Jemison. Mae Carol Jemison (born October 17, 1956) is an American engineer, physician and NASA astronaut. She became the first African-American woman to travel in space when she went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour on September 12, 1992.
First black woman in space
Meets
First black woman in space on TV
Mae Jemison's net worth is estimated to be in the range of approximately $544,828,041 in 2017, according to the users of vipfaq. The estimated net worth includes stocks, properties, and luxury goods such as yachts and private airplanes.
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fred and a young kool g rap looks like they're related.
as a kid i thought she was fine.... as a man I know she is FINE....
Three members of the Northeasterners, Inc., Edith Scott, Louise Swain, and Helene Corbin on Seventh Avenue in Harlem, 1927.
Vegetable pickers, migrants, waiting after work to be paid, near Homestead, Florida, February 1939.
A crowd of African American Women's Army Corps members waving at the camera after returning home, Staten Island Terminal, New York Port of Embarkation, March 13, 1946.
The Trenton Six is the group name for six African-American defendants tried for murder of an elderly white shopkeeper in January 1948 in Trenton, New Jersey. The six young men were convicted in August 1948 by an all-white jury of the murder and sentenced to death.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trenton_Six
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trenton_Six
Guests at breakfast party for Langston Hughes at 580 St. Nicholas Avenue, Harlem, May 1925. Back row, left to right: Ethel Ray (Nance), Langston Hughes, Helen Lanning,Pearl Fisher, Rudolf Fisher, Luella Tucker, Clarissa Scott, Hubert Delany. Front row, left to right: Regina Anderson (Andrews), Esther Popel, Jessie Fauser, Marie Johnson and E. Franklin Frazier.
Wow, the more you know!
This is Annie Lumpkins, age 18 at time of photo. In the hot summer of 1961, she and 4 friends boarded a freedom bus in St Louis, with the goal of desegregating public transportation facilities throughout the south, from St. Louis to New Orleans. They didn't get far, for when they arrived in the Trailways Bus station, there was a mob waiting for them. Annie and her friends, all black and white, all members of the same group of Freedom Riders, walked passed the mod and sat in a "Whites Only" waiting room in the station. The police arrived, and arrested them all on the spot. Keep in mind that just a year earlier, the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Boynton vs. Virginia ordered integration of all bus terminals, but that didn't matter to the police, or the prosecutor. Their crime carried a punishment of a six month prison sentence and a $500 fine in Arkansas, which was common. But thanks to the ruling, the Judge had no authority to keep the band of five from traveling, and let them go. I've heard it said "Well behaved women rarely make history" and I feel this is true today as it was so many years ago.
On February 12,1793,
Congress passes the first fugitive slave law, requiring all states, including those that forbid slavery, to forcibly return slaves who have escaped from other states to their original owners. The laws stated that “no person held to service of labor in one state, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such labor or service or labor, but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due.”
As Northern states abolished slavery, most relaxed enforcement of the 1793 law, and many passed laws ensuring fugitive slaves a jury trial. Several Northern states even enacted measures prohibiting state officials from aiding in the capture of runaway slaves or from jailing the fugitives. This disregard of the first fugitive slave law enraged Southern states and led to the passage of a second fugitive slave law as part of the Compromise of 1850 between the North and South.
The second fugitive slave law called for the return of slaves “on pain of heavy penalty” but permitted a jury trial under the condition that fugitives be prohibited from testifying in their own defense. Notable fugitive slave trials, such as the Dred Scott case of 1857, stirred up public opinion on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Line. Meanwhile, fugitive slaves circumvented the law through the “Underground Railroad,” which was a network of persons, primarily free African Americans, who helped fugitives escape to freedom in the Northern states or Canada.
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