Nearly 60 years after Russell City was annexed and ultimately razed, it has become the epicenter of the movement to provide reparations to Black communities in the Bay Area.
On a recent afternoon, Priscilla Figueroa played “Solamente Una Vez,” a melancholy song about love and loss, on the piano at her home. The music echoed in the dining room, where old photo albums depicted life as it once was in Russell City, a town in which she was married decades earlier. A town where her husband grew up. A town that no longer exists.Russell City, an unincorporated area in Alameda County, became a thriving haven for people of color after World War II.
“It’s a combination of joy, frustration, motivation and a little bit of sadness,” Knowles said of the movement to make amends. “I just wish that so many relatives that weren’t able to experience this had received justice when they were living.” That thriving culture did not deter the City of Hayward from declaring Russell City “blighted” in 1964, using eminent domain to annex the community–and ultimately destroy it.
Undated photo of Russell City residents is part of Priscilla Figueroa's photo album. Figueroa was active in her church in Russell City where she was married. Sheâs a member of Russell City Reparative Justice Project Committee which aims to outline recommendations for how to make amends for the destruction of a thriving Black and Latino community in the 1960s. Famous Blues singer, Dottie Ivory singing and dancing in a club in Russell City in the 1950's.
“Speaking to some of the elders, hearing their pain, I did not want to be idle on this,” said Márquez, who represents the District 2 communities of Hayward, Union City, Newark and part of Fremont. “This is the first step, acknowledging the wrongdoing.”
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