Black Residents Watched Their Neighborhood Burn to the Ground. Decades Later, They Finally Get The Payback They Deserve

Just east of Los Angeles, a small neighborhood called Section 14 stood for decades. But in the 1960s, its Black and Latino residents were forced out of their homes to make space for commercial buildings, leaving hundreds of parents to pick up the pieces and even more children witnessing it all. Suggested Reading That’s So Random With Raven Goodwin Off English Suggested Reading “On Friday, we were notified that we had to take anything we wanted out of the house by Monday — two days,” Gloria Holland told NBC News. “That was it. It was awful.” Holland was only 8 or 9 when she watched her community crumble. Now at 70 years old, she has lived to see the wrongs be righted. Advertisement The City of Palm Springs first apologized to the survivors of the Section 14 displacement more than sixty years later in 2021, according to the Desert Sun. Soon afterwards, Holland and with the remaining Section 14 Survivors Group filed a lawsuit against the city in 2022, according to the Los Angeles Times. They sought monetary reparations for the physical and emotional damages done to their community. And now in 2024, Palm Springs is finally paying up. Advertisement...