Bruce's Beach Streaming Series In The Works For Amazon

MANHATTAN BEACH, CA —A Bruce’s Beach series from Brad Pitt's Plan B, and Viola Davis and Julius Tennon’s JuVee Productions is currently in the works at Amazon Studios, according to Deadline.

Alison Rose Jefferson’s book "Bruce’s Beach, Living The California Dream: African American Leisure Sites During the Jim Crow Era," was acquired by Amazon Studios and will be used as source material for the series, the entertainment magazine reports.

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In 1912, a young Black couple named Willa and Charles Bruce purchased beachfront property in Manhattan Beach and built a resort that served Black residents. It was one of the few beaches where Black residents could go because so many other local beaches did not permit Black beachgoers. The Bruces and their customers were harassed and threatened by white neighbors including the KKK. Eventually, the Manhattan Beach City Council moved to seize the property using eminent domain in 1924, purportedly to create a park. The City took the property in 1929 and it remained vacant for decades.

A bill allowing for the return of Bruce's Beach to the descendants of Willa and Charles Bruce is on its way to the Senate floor.