‘Disregarded as human beings’: survivors of Palm Springs demolition demand justice 60 years on
Palm Springs had razed Section 14, a Black and Latino community, to make way for commercial development
Six decades ago, hundreds of people in Palm Springs, California, came home to ashes. Their houses had burned, sometimes with their belongings inside – no time to evacuate or no place to go. It wasn’t the work of California’s notorious wildfires, but of the city itself, which razed the Black and Latino community known as Section 14 to make way for commercial development.
