HISTORY

NBC News - Palm Springs is one of Los Angeles’ weekend playgrounds, a desert oasis, chock full of mid-century architecture, golf courses, quirky shops and hip restaurants. But to make way for these attractions, over a period of several years in the late 1950s, the city government directed the bulldozing and burning of the one neighborhood where Black people were allowed to live. Lucille McFarland, now 101 years old, was a resident of the area dubbed Section 14. She’d moved west from Mississippi assuming the racial terror that characterized her upbringing would be less of a constant threat. Her son remembers that "traumatizing" moment when their family was told they had the weekend to pack up and move out.This is the remarkable story of a California city's assault on its Black residents and how, earlier this month, it attempted to make amends.