California group seeks fair compensation for victims of racially motivated eminent domain

BEVERLY MOORE RECALLS feeling a wave of relief when her family rented a house in Richmond, California, after their prior house burned down in the late 1950s. 

The one-story wooden house at 502 Enterprise Ave. soon became part of a close-knit Black community. There was a porch and a den filled with books. Moore remembers her mom tending to their fig and pear trees with water from their well. Her mother grew collard greens that she traded with neighbors for fresh-caught fish.