Browsing: Jim Crow era

county officials confirmed on Tuesday that the decision to sell Bruce’s Beach has been communicated to the county by relatives of the original proprietors, Willa and Charles Bruce. 

They were in place for about 100 years, from the post-Civil War era until 1968. Jim Crow laws frequently resulted in arrests, fines, jail terms, violence, and even death for anyone who tried to violate them.

The son of Frederick Douglass, purchased the Highland property after being turned away from another Maryland resorts. The first black community in the state to incorporate was Highland in 1922.