Bruce’s Beach isn’t the only historically Black beach in America. Dozens dot the East Coast and elsewhere, including Bay Street Beach, known as “The Inkwell,” in Santa Monica, California.

“Black California Dreamin’: Claiming Space at America’s Leisure Frontier” is on display through Aug. 18 at the California African American Museum, 600 State Dr., Los Angeles.

Good to know: The exhibit closes Sunday, August 18. The show includes photos of Bruce’s Beach, a Black-owned resort on the Manhattan Beach shore that sold refreshments and changing booths.

Bruce's Beach, a once thriving resort for Black families owned by Willa and Charles Bruce, was seized by the town of Manhattan Beach in 1924 with the stated goal of building a park.

Black entrepreneur, Silas White, dreamed of opening the Ebony Beach Club in Santa Monica, California in the late 1950s. Courtesy Connie White and April Banks ...

California lawmakers voted unanimously to give the prime beachfront property to descendants of the Black couple. They were stripped of their resort for Blacks amid racist harassment a century ago.

Yvonne Spinks dreamed of California beaches and sun. She imagined less aggressive policing of Black people than she experienced growing up in the Midwest. In 1984, she chased that dream to San Diego.