The closure of Wadsworth Elementary School in 2013 was a blow to residents of the majority-Black neighborhood it served, symbolizing a city indifferent to their interests.
Attorney George Fatheree said his entire professional career had prepared him for the type of experience and expertise it took to return Bruce’s Beach, a property in Manhattan Beach, to the African American family who owned it and lost it in the 1920s.
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