Learn about Black entrepreneur Silas White and his family's fight to get back the land he once owned and was taken from him by the city of Santa Monica.
Silas White once owned the land where the Viceroy Hotel in Santa Monica now rests, but the city took the property from him via eminent domain.If every corner in Los Angeles County has a story, then the tale of one property at Ocean Avenue and Pico Boulevard in Santa Monica has been buried underneath the Viceroy Hotel for decades.
White purchased the land and the former Elks Lodge building that sat on it, just two blocks from the beach, with hopes of turning the space into the Ebony Beach Club, a place where the local Black community could come together and socialize during a time when such establishments were few and far between.
Silas died in 1962, just four years after the city took his land and his dream, and the story of what happened was almost lost to the sands of time. White, 90, lives in Northern California, but she is now part of a concerted effort to get the City of Santa Monica to return the land to the family. “We don't want apologies. We don't want another plaque,” said Ward, who is now focusing her efforts on the White family’s case. “And if you do provide that, we want that in conjunction with true justice, which is a land return and compensation for decades of wealth lost.”
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