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AlCo supervisors sign off on $1M redress fund to compensate evicted Russell City residents
The Alameda County Board of Supervisors has voted to create a roughly $1 million “redress fund” to bring some amount of ...
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Fund proposed to provide payments to wrongfully evicted Russell City residents
FORMER RESIDENTS OF RUSSELL CITY, a once-thriving African American and Latino community on the Hayward shoreline, could soon ...
Alameda County leaders to vote on redress for Russell City
The city of Hayward and the offices of two Alameda County supervisors have set aside nearly $1 million for a Redress Fund for ...
Hayward, Alameda Co. create 'Russell City Redress Fund' to compensate families for land seizure
On Thursday, there was a major update in the push for reparations for hundreds of families who had their land taken from them ...
Hayward, Alameda County officials propose Russell City reparations fund
The $900,000 fund would go to living former residents of Russell City, a Black and Latino community that was bulldozed for an ...
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Remembering Russell City: A Thriving East Bay Town Razed by Racist ...
Because Russell City was unincorporated, it became a haven for Black and Latino families who had difficulty buying property in other parts of the Bay Area due to racist real estate policies like ...
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California City Apologizes for Bulldozing Community, Blues Hub
Russell City was named in the mid-19th century for a teacher who came to California during the Gold Rush. Initially, Danish immigrants lived there. By World War II, ...