{"648174":{"#nid":"648174","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"The Second Life of Bruce\u2019s Beach","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/douglas-flamming\u0022\u003EDouglas Flamming\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the School of History and Sociology, was quoted in the article, \u0026ldquo;The Second Life of Bruce\u0026rsquo;s Beach,\u0026rdquo; published on June 9, 2021, in\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EEasy Reader\u003C\/em\u003E.\u0026nbsp;The article explores the history of Bruce\u0026rsquo;s Beach, oceanfront land in Manhattan Beach, California, that was bought by a Black family \u0026ndash; the Bruce family \u0026ndash;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;in 1912, and their loss of the land through the City of Manhattan Beach\u0026rsquo;s racially motivated use of eminent domain in 1927.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Black Los Angeles, or at least its leaders and its boosters, embraced the notion of the West as a land of opportunity,\u0026rdquo; Flamming said. \u0026ldquo;Although we don\u0026rsquo;t think of LA much as the West now, it certainly was a Western city then. People talked about it as such, people praised it as such, with the idea that the West was that last best chance, an open place for opportunity.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"35826","created_gmt":"2021-06-16 18:53:55","changed_gmt":"2021-06-17 14:12:56","author":"mshepard31","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"carbon utilization","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/easyreadernews.com\/the-second-life-of-bruces-beach\/","dateline":{"date":"2021-06-17T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-06-17T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"405691":{"id":"405691","type":"image","title":"Douglas Flamming","body":null,"created":"1449254153","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:35:53","changed":"1475895129","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:52:09","alt":"Douglas Flamming","file":{"fid":"76096","name":"dougflammingweb.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/dougflammingweb.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/dougflammingweb.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":100766,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/dougflammingweb.jpg?itok=uFlgJFep"}}},"media_ids":["405691"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}