The history of Black Californians in Palm Springs is filled with triumph but also pain. Read more:
La’Ronjanae Curtis has grown used to the disbelief of college classmates and friends when she tells them she was born in Palm Springs, a city of 48,000 where people of color are relatively few.
But the picture-postcard settings and air of possibility masked an uglier reality for Black newcomers. Desert Highland Gateway Estates, about three miles from downtown Palm Springs, became home to some of the hundreds of Black people who moved to desert communities last century from the South and more urban parts of California.Dominique Brenagh, on the South during the Jim Crow era
The elder Brenagh says that while he made a decent living as a city employee for 36 years, and got along with most everyone, he understood that Black people were not particularly welcome in Palm Springs.As a Black man in America, I’ve always struggled to embrace a country that promotes the ideals of justice and equality but never fully owns up to its dark history of bigotry, inequality and injustice.
Christopher Williams, 44, a lifelong resident who helped lead the tree-removal effort, had joined Brenagh on some of those childhood golf course escapades. His grandparents had relocated to Palm Springs from the South, too.
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