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Alameda County and Hayward create Russell City Redress Fund, board approves $650,000 seed
Summary
The Alameda County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a $650,000 contribution to a Russell City Redress Fund in partnership with the City of Hayward, seeding an effort to provide direct redress and an action plan for descendants of the community displaced in the 1960s.
The Alameda County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a $650,000 contribution to a Russell City Redress Fund on a motion by Supervisor Alisa Marquez and seconded by Supervisor Nate Miley.
The fund, a city-county partnership with the City of Hayward, will seed payments and reparative programming for people and descendants displaced in Russell City when the area was bulldozed in the 1960s. Supervisor Marquez, who described Russell City as “a multiracial, multiethnic community of over 1,400 residents” and called its destruction “an atrocity that cannot be undone,” moved the measure and read into the record the names of many former residents and descendants the fund aims to reach.
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