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Sam Levin in Los Angeles

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

The monument at Bruce’s Beach Park
The monument at Bruce’s Beach park in Manhattan Beach, California, last year. Photograph: Jay L Clendenin/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images

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.

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