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There was great euphoria earlier this year when Bruce’s Beach was returned to the descendants of Willa and Charles Bruce. The couple acquired the property in 1912, and it quickly became an oasis for black leisure.

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A Black familys historic success in regaining of beachfront California property has inspired other families and put their efforts in the spotlight.

The beachfront land — known as Bruces Beach in Manhattan Beach, Calif. — is being returned to the descendants of Charles and Willa Bruce 97 years after it was taken from them.

Thomas Wilson Mitchell is a property law scholar. | John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Property law scholar Thomas W. Mitchell, who was a 2020 recipient of a MacArthur "genius" fellowship for his work looking at how black and other disadvantaged Americans have been deprived of their real estate wealth, says black farmers alone have lost millions of acres of land and at least $250 billion in wealth over the last century due to “historic discrimination.” Mitchell shared the data du...