Bruce's Beach was a property bought by Willa and Charles Bruce in the Manhattan Beach 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. 

Black visitors faced harassment when visiting Bruce's Beach by White Supremacist groups. 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, the 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 African Americans were run off the land. It was not until 2007, practically eighty years later, that this travesty was acknowledged by the city and the beach was renamed Bruce's Beach.

Manhattan Beach has failed to teach the history of Bruce's Beach to their local students and must acknowledge this history by teaching it in schools and making it mandatory local history. Local residents must know the racial history of the area, take ownership of their failings in educating their residents and students by teaching the history of Bruce's Beach in schools!