Exposed: Black History L.A.

Beach Integration

California School of Photography, Los Angeles, 1950
The Inkwell (above), a strip at the end of Pico Blvd. in Santa Monica, where Blacks could legally swim. Claude Hudson played a pivotal role in desegregating Los Angeles beaches. Hudson and seven USC students were jailed in 1925 when they waded into the ocean at Manhattan Beach. When the case was dismissed beaches became integrated.

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