Beaches are synonymous with California. A lot of states line up to the coast -- but our state is best-known for it. Amazing.
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But, like the rest of the California and the US, the beaches here were the sites of segregation and racial violence.
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People joke about how black folks in LA who live so close to the beach can't swim. Umm. Maybe because you might get killed for trying?
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Black folks in LA and other parts of California attempted, with different degrees of success, to establish their own beaches.
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You've probably heard of Santa Monica's Inkwell. There's a lot of misinformation about it, but it really was a Jim Crow-style beach.
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There was Pacific Beach Club, an extravagant black beach club that was supposed to open in 1926. It was burned down, probably by the KKK.
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White people were so mad black people might have access to a fancy beach club that they burned the entire thing down right before it opened.
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No one was ever arrested or charged for the crime. Because who was going to defend black beach-goers -- even rich ones? Not the state.
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in Illinois, the city of Evanston makes you pay for a beach pass to go their beaches. Keeps out black kids from west Evanston.
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